Catasetum blackii Pabst 1964 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Inflorescence Photos by © Daniel Souza
Common Name or Meaning Black's Catasetum [Original Discoverer of Species late 1900's]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in the region surrounding the Sao Franscisco River in SW Bahia and Northern Minas Gerais States of Brazil at elevations of 600 to 800 meters as a large sized, cool to warm growing, rarely seen epiphyte on palms with the largest flowers of the C cristatum complex with elliptic pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying plicate, spathulate, acute basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, erect to pendant, 16" [40 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescence and features flowers with a trilobed lip and crossed antennae..
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005
