Catasetum pulchrum N.E.Br. 1887

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Common Name The Beautiful Catasetum

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in north & northern Brazil on palms and other trees as a small to just medium sized, epiphyte with fusiform pseudobubls enveloped completely by imbricating, leaf sheaths becoming leaf bearing towards the apex and carrying to 8, oblong-ligulate, plicate, 6 nerved leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a mature pseudobulb, pendant, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, to 5 flowered inflorescence carrying resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; The World of Catasetum Holst 1999 photo fide

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