Catasetum kraenzlinianum Mansf.1932 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Inflorescence Photo by Daniel Souza©

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Common Name Kraenzlin's Catasetum [German Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in northern and western [Rondonia] Brazil in rain forests at elevations of 90 to 400 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by deciduous sheaths and carrying to 6, arched, oblanceolate, plicate, narrowing below into the pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a, basal, male, pendant, racemose, 4.8 to 8.2" [12 to 21 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, stem-clasping bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers held in the distal third of the stem.

Synonyms Catasetum micranthum Kraenzl. 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol I Plate 029 Castro & Campacci 2000 as C galeatum

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