Catasetum microglossum Rolfe 1913 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Small Lipped Catasetum
Flower Size 1 3/4" [4.5 cm]
Found in Peru, Ecuador, and southeastern Colombia in densely forested tropical lowlands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing orchid with fusiform, several noded, slightly compressed and curved pseudobulbs ernveloped basally by several distichous, foliaceous sheaths carrying thin, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, plicate, medium green leaves that blooms on an arching to pendant, several flowered, to 2' 2" [65 cm] long inflorescence arising from the basal pseudobulb nodes occurring in the fall to winter with 3 to 4 female flowers or 7 to 11 male flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 3 1961 photo; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 406 Dodson 1982; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 1 1993; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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