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Catasetum luridum

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ5051520 ↗
Source-derived summary

Catasetum luridum, the pale-yellow catasetum, is a species of orchid. It is native to South America, where it is distributed from Guyana to Brazil.

Synonyms- Anguloa lurida Link 1824; Catachaetum literatum Hoffmanns. 1842; Catachaetum squalidum Hoffmanns. 1842; Catasetum abruptum Lindley 1842; Catasetum craniomorphum Hoffm. 1814; Catasetum literatum Hoffm. 1842; Catasetum purpurescens Hoffm. 1841; Catasetum squalidum Hoffm. 1842; Catasetum trifidum Hoffmanns. 1844; Catasetum turbinatum Hoffm.

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Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1824, 1842, 1814, 1841—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Catasetum, luridum and species can be independently traced.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5051520. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1824, 1842, 1814 and 1841.

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This entry incorporates text from “Catasetum luridum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.