Catasetum dupliciscutula Senghas 1991 Photo by © Art Vogel

Part Shade HotWinterEARLYSpring

Common Name The Two Pitted Catasetum

Flower Size 2.8" [7 cm]

Found in northern Brazil and Bolivia in Amazon forests at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with aggregate, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf leass and leafbearing sheaths in you and carrying lanceolate, plicate, deciduou, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base and blooms in the winter and early spring on a basal, pendulous, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, to 12 flowered inflorescence with 3 to 5 amplexicaulbracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

Easily determined by the long antennae on the labellum.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A World of Catasetum Holst 1999; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol II Plate 126 Neto 2006 as Catasetum duplicutulatum drawing/photo good

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