Catasetum pulchrum 'Berlinde'

"Catasetum pulchrum is found in Brazil, states of (southern) Pará, Amazonas, Rondônia, Tocantins, Maranhão, and Mato Grosso. It grows on palms and other trees. This species is a beautiful but rare Brazilian species with a wide range of color forms." 

Catasetum pulchrum N.E.Br., Lindenia 3: 51, pl. 120 (1887).

Catasetum pulchrum 'Berlinde' N.E.Br., Photo by Orquintal - Orquídeas exóticas

 its native range is N. & NE. Brazil.

Latin Name: 

Catasetum pulchrum N.E.Br 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Beautiful Catasetum.

Description: 

With fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricating, leaf sheaths becoming leaf bearing towards the apex and carrying to 8, oblong-ligulate, plicate, 6 nerved leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a pendant, to 3 cm long, to 5 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying resupinate flowers.

Distribution:

Brazil North, Brazil Northeast.

Ecological:

On palms and other trees as a small to just medium sized, epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Bloome in the late summer and fall.

Flower size:

4.0 cm

Cultivation:

Grow in intermediate to warm conditions with partially bright light. Water regularly during growing season and when plants drop leaves during dormancy reduce watering. During dormancy only water about twice a month to keep pseudobulbs from shriveling. Resume watering normally when new growths occur in spring. Plants can die easily from over watering. Plants are usually grown in bark with perlite, cork, full sphagnum moss, and tree fern.

Typus:

Type Information: Distribution Of Types: Brazil (Southern America)

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/49951-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:49951-2

- https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2019/01/catasetum-pulchrum-care-and-culture.html

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/catpulchrum.htm.

- https://orchids.fandom.com