Catasetum x roseo-album (Hook.) Lindl. 1840 Photo by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

Another Flower Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden ©

Common Name The Pink & White Catasetum

Flower Size

Found in Guyana, Surinam and Northern Brazil as a natural hybrid between C discolor and C longifolium that blooms in the summer

Synonyms Catasetum discolor var roseo-album [Hkr.] Mansf. 1942; *Monachanthus × roseoalbus Hook.1840

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as C discolor drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing #598 as C discolor not = C roseum album fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as C discolor pg 83 drawing fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 as C discolor var roseo-album; 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 fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo as C roseo-album;

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