Catopsis delicatula L. B. Sm.

Catopsis delicatula L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 4. 1937.
Plant known only in immature condition, 28 cm. high; leaves few in a subfasciciilate rosette, up to 27 cm. long, obscurely brown-punctulate, the outer ones greatly reduced; sheaths small, elliptic, indistinct; blades linear-triangular, long-acuminate, 12 nun. wide at the base, flat; scape erect, very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, much exceeding the internodes, very narrowly lanceolate, subfiliform-acuminate; inflorescence laxly paniculate, 13 cm. long; axis geniculate; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, the lower about equaling the young axillary spikes, the upper much reduced; spikes spreading, up to 4 cm. long, laxly few-flowered; floral bracts broadly ovate, 4 mm. long, shorter than the sepals, very obscurely punctulatelepidote; flowers spreading; sepals elliptic, strongly asymmetric, 5 mm. long; petals lingulate, broadly acute, 6 mm. long; stamens very unequal.
Typb locality: San Felipe, Dept. Retalhuleu, Guatemala, altitude 670 meters. Distribution: Known from the type collection only.

Catopsis delicatula is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Mexico and Guatemala.