Catasetum jarae Dodson & D.E. Benn. 1989 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Jara's Catasetum [Peruvian original collector of species current]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 950 meters as a medium szied, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform, ridged, noded pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by imbricate sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, plicate, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below in to the channeled petiolate base leaf where it blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, suberect, to 12" [30 cm] long, racemose, several flowered inflorescence with fragrant, non-resupinate flowers

The flower pictured is of the female flower, I await a photo of the male flower.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 017 Dodson & Bennett 1989; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999