Catasetum blepharochilum Schltr. 1920 SUBGENUS Orthocatacetum SECTION anisoceras Photo by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

Common Name The Hairy Fringed Lip Catasetum

Flower Size

Found in Colombia with pseudobulbs carrying erect, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms on an erect, terete, 10" [25 cm] long, laxly 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with patent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

The photographed species was found in Fr Guiana from which I can find no records of it's being from there, so use with caution as all sources say endemic to Colombia

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia 7:156 Schlechter 1920; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok no fringe on IOSPE photo;

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