Catasetum luridum (Link) Lindl. 1832 SUBGENUS Orthocatacetum SECTION anisoceras

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden©

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Common Name The Pale Yellow Catasetum

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in coastal Brazil in the states of Bahia, Espiritu Santo and Rio de Janiero in the Atlantic Coastal forest as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying plicate, linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the fall in nature with a erect to arching, 24" [60 cm] long, rather loosely several [5 to 10] flowered inflorescence with fragrant, fleshy, nodding flowers..

Synonyms *Anguloa lurida Link 1824; Catachaetum literatum Hoffmanns. 1842; Catachaetum squalidum Hoffmanns. 1842; Catasetum abruptum [Link]Lindley 1842; Catasetum craniomorphum Hoffm. 1814; Catasetum literatum Hoffm. 1842; Catasetum purpurescens Hoffm. 1841; Catasetum squalidum Hoffm. 1842; Catasetum turbinatum Hoffm. 1842; Epidendrum allare Vell. 1831; Epidendrum ollare Vell. 1831

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;

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