Catasetum gladiatorium K.G.Lacerda 1998 Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden ©

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Common Name The Sword Carrying Catasetum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Brazil's central Plateau in Mato Grosso and Goiás states in savannahs at elevations around 200 to 650 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by deciduous leaf sheaths and carrying to 10, arched, oblanceolate leaves and blooms in the summer on a basal, arched, racemose, 20 3/4" [52 cm] long, many [32] flowered inflorescence with resupinate flowers. This species was considered to be a form of Catasetum barbatum but differs in the 3 toothed, basal callus, abscence of cilia in the basal part and the smaller pollina and is still part of the C barbatum complex.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilensis I Plate 030 Neto & Campacci 2000; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999