Catopsis subulata L. B. Sm.

Catopsis subulata L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 114: 5. 1936.
Plant 3-6 dm. high; leaves many in an ellipsoid pseudobulb, 15-30 cm. long, obscurely brown-punctulate; sheaths ample, elliptic, about twice as long as the blades and sharply distinct from them; blades narrowly triangular, acuminate, about 1 cm. wide at the base, involutesubulate, contorted; scape erect, much exceeding the leaves; its bracts densely imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate, involute-subulate, recurved toward the apex; inflorescence bipinnate or tripinnate, dense or subdetise, ovoid or pyramidal, 6-21 cm. long, glabrous; primary bracts much shorter than the axillary branches, broadly ovate with an acuminate involute recurved dp; branches erect to spreading, simple or the lowest with 3 digitate spikes; spikes shortstipitate, cylindric, densely flowered, 2-7 cm. long; floral bracts broadly ovate, acute, slightly over half as long as the sepals at anthesis, thin, prominently nerved; flowers functionally dioecious, suberect; sepals obovate, strongly asymmetric, 9 mm. long when extended; petals oblong, obtuse, included, white; stamens unequal; style short.
Type locality: Motintains near Fenia (?), Chiapas. Distribution: Chiapas, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Catopsis subulata is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca), Guatemala, and Honduras.