Catasetum fimbriatum (C. Morr.) Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1 Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden©
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Common Name The Fringed Catasetum
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found in Guyana?, Venezuela, Bolivai, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina in dry lowland regions on trunks of palm trees as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at altitudes of 400 to 500 meters with conical-fusiform, several-noded pseudobulbs subtended by several leaf bearing sheaths carrying several, oblong-ligulate, submembraneous, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a basal, pendant, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and has many [7 to 15] loosely arranged, fleshy, very spicily fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Catasetum cogniauxii Linden 1895; Catasetum fimbriatum var fissum Rchb.f 1881; Catasetum fimbriatum var inconstans [Hoehne] Mansf 1942; Catasetum fimbriatum var morrenianum Mansf. 1942; Catasetum fimbriatum var ornithorhynchum {Porsch] Mansf. 1942; Catasetum inconstans Hoehne 1915; Catasetum negrense Schltr. 1925; Catasetum orinthorrhynchum Porsch 1905; Catasetum pflanzii Schlechter 1912; Catasetum wredeanum Schlechter 1915; Monachanthus fimbriatus Gardner ex Hook. 1839; *Myanthus fimbriatus C. Morr. 1848
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1958 photo; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1967; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 7 1983 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 2/116 1991; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1972; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 1 2003 photo; Boletim CAOB Vol 55 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 no 9 2004 photo;
Catasetum fimbriatum (C. Morr.) Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1 var morrenianum Mansf. 1942;
Catasetum fimbriatum (C. Morr.) Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1
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