Catasetum hookeri Lindl. 1824 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Female Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler. LATE

Common Name or Meaning Hooker's Catasetum [English Botanist Early 1800's]

Flower Size 3/4" [2.3 cm]

Found in Rio De Janiero, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais states of Brazil at elevations of sea level to 1000 meters in shady forests as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with close set, fusiform to oblong-fusiform, slightly compressed, often slightly curved pseudobulbs carrying 6, plicate, 3 nerved, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a basal, 7" [18 cm] long, to 9 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb carrying the flowers in an apical cluster.

Synonyms Catasetum hookeri var triste Rchb.f 1863; Catasetum imschootianum L.Linden & Cogn. 1893; Catasetum milleri Lodd. ex Lindl. 1838; Catasetum triste Rchb.f. 1855

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999;