Catasetum

The construction of the flower in another closely allied orchid, namely the Catasetum, is widely different, though serving the same end; and is equally curious.

VI. Difficulties of the Theory. Special Difficulties of the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

The sexes are separate in Catasetum, which is a wonderful relief to me, as I have had two or three letters saying that the male C. tridentatum seeds.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

See footnote Letter 608 on the sexual relation between the three forms known as Catasetum tridentatum, Monacanthus viridis, and Myanthus barbatus.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

Species with sizable pseudobulbs, such as Catasetum, many Laelia and some Dendrobium, store water and are well prepared for their resting periods.

Orchids of Mexico 1997

Epiphytes include more than 60 species of orchids (Oncidium, Miltonia, Catasetum, and Warmingia, among other genera).

Iguazú National Park, Argentina 2008

A specimen of _Catasetum eburneum_ forwarded by Mr. Wilson

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Diagram of malformed flower of _Catasetum_ 291 157.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

In the other example (_Catasetum_), when a bee gnaws a certain part of the flower, he inevitably touches a long delicate projection, which Mr. Darwin calls the antenna.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

_ -- A flower of _Phaius grandiflorus_ was found in the same condition as the _Catasetum_, mentioned at pp. 291 and

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Fig. 156 is a diagram showing the presence of two additional labella within the ordinary one in a species of _Catasetum_, and representing two petaloid stamens, thus evidently completing the outer staminal whorl, of which there is usually but a single representative

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters