Catasetum juruenense Hoehne 1915 SUBGENUS Orthocatacetum SECTION Anisoceras C. callosum Alliance

Female Flower Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website

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Common Name The Rio Jurua Catasetum

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

This is a medium sized, warm growing Brazilian species from Matto Grosso state occuring only on dead trees in gallery forests along the Juruena river with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying linear-lanceolate, medium green, plicate leaves that blooms on a basal, suberect, racemose, 11" [28 cm] long, several [9] flowered, long lasting inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb occurring in the fall and winter.

Synonyms Catasetum juruenense var mansfeldianum Hoehne 1942

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999