Catasetum spitzii Hoehne 1941 SUBGENUS Orthocatacetum SECTION Anisoceras C trulla Alliance Photo courtesy of © Orquidario Cuiaba © and Orquidario Cuiaba Website

Another Color form Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Gustavo Coral

Female Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name Spitz's Catasetum [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm]

Found in Brazil and Bolivia at elevations in subtropical forests as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations up to 800 meters with short, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying several, plicate, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a newly developing pseudobulb with a basal, 16" long [40 cm], horizontal, several to many [11 to 35] flowered inflorescence carrying color and size variable flowers. This plant needs a decided rest after leaf fall and should get little or no water ar fertilizer until new growth appears.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1975; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0310 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Boletim CAOB #48 2003; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateua Menezes 2004 photo fide

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Catasetum spitzii var album Photo courtesy of © Robson Carvalho

An alba variety of the previous species.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateua Menezes 2004 photo fide

Catasetum spitzii var sanguineum Photo by anon

A red colored variety of the previous species.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateua Menezes 2004 photo fide