Catasetum denticulatum Miranda 1986 Photo courtesy of Wilma Braga

LATE and EARLY

Common Name The Small-Toothed Catasetum

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Blooms on a basal, erect to suberect, several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising basally on a new pseudobulb lead, occurring in the late spring and early summer in Rondonia state Brazil in Amazonian rain forest at elevations of 100 to 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte needing a short winter rest and enjoying moderate shade. This species has clustered fusiform pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by several deciduous leaf sheaths and carries 5 to 10, plicate, arched, oblanceloate leaves. This species is similar to C cirrhaeoides and C pulchrum but differs in having the denticulate margins and the shallow concavity in the lip while the other have entire margins and a lip with a deep saccate hollow.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilensis I Plate 027 Castro Neto & Campacci 2000; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999