This little plant puts on a big show, with about a dozen flowers coming off a 3" pseudobulb. The flowers are about 2-1/2 inches across, and have no discernable fragrance at all. The sepals remain in the position as shown in the photo; they do not reflex to make the flowers look like 'birds in flight' Coloring is complex, of a dark reddish brown in the sepals and petals, with numerous small bars and spots over lighter areas. The small cup-like lip is a creamy white, and the toothed side lobes are marked with a reddish color. They seem to last longer than those of many other Catasetums. This plant grows wild in the Brazilian Amazon. I grow it about like Ctsm. saccatum, with a fair amount of sun and even moisture. It is growing in a 2-1/2" pot in a mix of bark and long-fibred sphagnum moss.
