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Orchid Species: Catasetum tenebrosum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Catasetum tenebrosum is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1910.
Genus
Catasetum (Ctsm.)
Grex
tenebrosum
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Kraenzl.
Year
1910
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ORIGIN: From Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru found at elevations of 500 to 1800 meters in riverine forests on hilly terrain in full sun or on rocks and boulders below them.

DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic or lithophytic species with spindle-shaped, several noded pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, distichous, foliaceous sheaths carrying 6 to 8, thin, plicate, lanceolate leaves that blooms from the spring till fall from the basal nodes, on a suberect, 8 [20 cm] long, several to many [4 to 12] flowered, racemose inflorescence that arises from a newly forming pseudobulb carrying 3 to 8 female flowers or 11 to 17 male flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/4 inch [3 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Jim' (2 awards from 1999 to 2018) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Mac' (2 awards from 2014 to 2016) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Ellie' (2 awards in 1996) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Northern Ridge' (2 awards in 1993) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Chocolate Eclair' (2 awards in 1988) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Ed Wise #2' (2015) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Whisper Duncan Bass' (2013) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Spledens' (2013) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Fredensborg' (2011) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Kyra' (2003) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Abigail' (2003) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Black Queen' (2002) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Shay Baby' (2002) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Linda' (2000) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Clown Alley' (2000) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Crownfox' (1999) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Rachel Lynn' (1998) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Sal' (1995) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'JEM Again' (1994) Ctsm. tenebrosum 'Anna Rose' (1993)
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