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Catasetum oerstedii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1855. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Catasetum maculatum.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil occurring at sea-level to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazil occurring at sea-level to 1000 meters and as such is a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte always occurring in coastal lowlands and always near watercourses with conical-fusiform, clustered, many noded pseudobulbs enveloped by several leaf-bearing sheaths carrying 3 to 5, oblanceolate, suberect to spreading, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and fall with [4 to 12] fragrant, fleshy flowers on an arching to suberect, to 2' [60 cm] long inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and has ovate, pale green bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 and more inches [5 cm +]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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