Catasetum parguazense G.A.Romero & G.Carnevali 1989

Another Angle Photos courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Paraguaza River Catasetum [Venezuelan River]

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Brazil growing on trees along river banks and in wet forests at elevations of 50 to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying, dark green, oblanceolate, plicate leaves and blooms with a basal, slightly arching then pendant, 3" [7.5 cm] long, 2 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly emerging pseudobulb in the spring and summer and carrying resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as C bicallosum drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela; An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as C bicallosum drawing fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;

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