Catasetum rolfeanum Mansf. 1928 SUBGENUS Orthocatacetum SECTION Anisoceras C callosum Alliance Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name or Meaning Rolfe's Catasetum [English Taxomonist at Kew 1855-21]
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in the northwesttern Amazon basin often in Para' state of Brazil in typical Amazonian grasslands with some woody vegetation and in swamp thickets in seasonally flooded forests as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that needs a short rest period after blooming and has fusiform, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying leaflike sheaths and lanceolate, medium to dark green leaves and blooms in the early spring as a male on an arching, to 1' 10" [55 cm] long inflorescence arising on a newly forming pseudobulb with up to 20 flowers.
Synonyms Catasetum stenochilum Kraenzlin 1929
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 drawing fide/photo not = C rondonense fide;
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