Catasetum confusum G.A. Romero 1993 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Isoceras Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium
Another Angle Photo by Wilma Braga
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Common Name The Confused Catasetum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Tocantins state of central Brazil at elevations of 200 to 400 meters in gallery forests as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte that occurs on palms and other trees with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several deciduous leaf sheaths and carries 7 to 8, arched, oblanceolate leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a basal, to 20" [to 50 cm] long, horizontal and then pendant, many [21] flowered inflorescence holding the resupinate flowers on the terminal half.
This species is similar to C ornithioides but this species has a 3 lobed lip.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Icones Brasilensis I Plate 026 Neto & Campacci 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide;
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