Catasetum kempfii Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989

Side View Photos by © Art Vogel

Inflorescence Photo by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

EARLY

Common Name Kempf's Catasetum [A Naturalist Assasinated by Narcotrafficers during a scientific expedition in Boliva 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Bolivia in subtropical forests with out elevational data as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with fusiform pseduobulbs enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying distichous, plicate, articulate, elliptic leaves that blooms in the later summer to early fall on a basal, arched, racemose, green basally becoming purple towards the apex, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0308 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999

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