Catasetum cirrhaeoides Hoehne 1915 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © Photo by Apolonia Grade and Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Cirrhaea-Like Cataseum

Flower Size

Found in Matto Grosso, Brazil as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few leaf sheaths and carrying to 4 to6 oblanceolate, plicate leaves where it blooms in the spring on a basal, erect, then horizontal to pendant few flowerwed inflorescence that arises on a mature pseudobulb and is a part of the C. pulchrum complex.

Synonyms Catasetum cirrhaeoides var hoehne Mansf 1932

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999;