Catasetum triodon Rchb.f 1857 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Common Name The Three Clawed Catasetum

Flower Size 1.8" [4.5 cm]

Found in Santa Catarina state in the coastal Atlantic forest of Brazil as a medium sized, cool growing epiphtye with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 6, plicate, 3 veined, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the early spring and again in the summer or fall on a to 17" [43 cm] long, arching to pendant, to 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Catasetum monodon Kraenzl.1904; Catasetum triodon var guttulatum Hoehne 1942

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

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