not yet in bloom
| Catasetum pileatum, var. imperiale | ||
| taxonomy | described by | Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav |
| published in | The Gardners' Chronicle, new serie 17 : 492 1882 | |
| var. imperiale | described by | (Linden & Cogniaux) Cogniaux, Celestin Alfred & Hoehne, Frederico Carlos |
| published in | Flora Brasiliensis 12 (6) : 90 1942 | |
| famigly | Orchdaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Cymbidieae | |
| subtribe | Catesetinae | |
| genus | Catasetum Kunth 1822 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | forests in Venezuela (Amazonas, Apure, Bolivar), Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil (Parà, Amazonas) |
| altitude | 100 - 200 m (330 - 660 ft) | |
| habitat | habitat climate informations from Guasdualito (Apure, Venezuela) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Aw, tropical savanna climate (with a dry season and a rainy season) | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 150 m / 495 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Guasdualito this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 29 m' to 11 h 31 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | sunny | |
| inflorescence | length | |
| nr flowers | ||
| size | ||
| duration | ||
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
