Catasetum confusum G.A. Romero 1993 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Another Angle Photo by Wilma Braga

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Common Name The Confused Catasetum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Tocantins state of central Brazil at elevations of 200 to 400 meters in gallery forests as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that occurs on palms and other trees with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several deciduous leaf sheaths and carries 7 to8, arched, oblanceolate leaves that blooms on a basal, to 20" [to 50 cm] long, horizontal and then pendant, many [21] flowered inflorescence holding the resupinate flowers on the terminal half and occurring in the late summer and early fall. This species is similar to C ornitioides but this species has a 3 lobed lip.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; Icones Brasilensis I Plate 026 Neto & Campacci 2000;