Catasetum peruvianum Dodson & D.E.Benn. 1989 Photo by © Delphina Arauja Orchid News Webpage

Common Name The Peruvian Catasetum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Peru in montane forests at elevations around 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by 8 to 9 foliaceous sheaths carring plicate, elliptic, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, shorter, few flowered female inflorescence and a basal, longer, many flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 0019 1989 drawing fide; The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo not?

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