catasetum cirrhaeoides 'claro'

 i posted this quite sometime before however feel like posting this again because the spike this small little plant is putting out is very showy. 21 flowers in a spike. though i had seen spike with >21 flowers in a single spike for this species, but this is my first catasetum species that had more than 20 flowers in a spike for me.

catasetum x sodiroi

another item to be added to the natural hybrid collection, but i am still awaiting reply from the vendor to see if it is a sodiroi or x sodiroi. this is a hybrid between macroglossum and expansum. as you can see the flowers has all the characteristic of the expansum , the prominent callus just ventral to the sac of the labellum and also the almost ninety degree column to the labellum. the difference is the lateral lobes of the labellum will never open fully as what an expansum will. in fact there are some 'espansum' that will open much further laterally than what i had here but never properly expanded. these plants most likely to have some macroglossum gene in them but the appearance mimics the expansum parents. 

Catasetum John C. Burchett x Susan Fuchs

this is a complex hybrid, external appearance had high similarity with some variety of susan fuchs.

catasetum (socco x pileatum ) = ctsm Mary Spencer
catasetum Mary Spencer x catasetum imperiale = catasetum Joao Stivali
catasetum Joao Stivali x Susan Fuchs = catasetum John C. Burchett
catasetum Susan Fuchs = ctsm expansum x Orchidglade
and catasetum Orchidglade - ctsm expansum x pileatum