Catasetum uncatum Rolfe 1895 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Inflorescence Photo by © Daniel Souza

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Common Name The Curved Inward or Hooked Catasetum [refers to the midlobe of the lip which is curved inward and the column whose apex is hooked]

Flower Size 1.2" [3.1 cm]

Found in Pernambuco, Alagoas and Ceara states of Brazil on palms near seashoeres, pastures and arid inland countrysides as a medium sized, hot to war mgrowing epiphyte that requires a long dry season with fusiform to elliptical, angled, curved, conspicuously furrowed pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate leaf less to leaf bearing above sheaths and carrying to 7, linear-lanceolate, to oblanceolate, medium to dark green, plicate, 3 veined leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a male, arching then pendant, 19.2 to 24" [48 to 60 cm] long, to 22 flowered inflorescence with the flowers held in the apical 1/3.

Synonyms

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

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