Catasetum fuchsii Dodson & R.Vásquez 1982
Inflorescence and Plant Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden ©
Flower with potential pollinator Photos courtesy of Dario Melgar
Another Flower Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium
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Common Name Fuchs Catasetum [American Orchid Collector and Vendor late 20th century]
Flower Size 2 4/5" [7.2 cm]
Found in Bolivia in dry forests on rolling countryside to the east of the Bolivian rainforests and into western Brazil on palms and other trees as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that needs a long, dry winter rests from water and fertilizer, with clustered, fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped completely by dry leaf sheaths and carrying to 7, linear-oblanceolate, medium green leaves with 3 prominent veins and blooms either on a male, arching then pendant, 17" [43 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence or a shorter and thicker female inflorescence with very fleshy and rigid flowers occurring in the late summer to late fall and often with successive inflorescence that arise over a few months.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 513 Dodson 1982; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999
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