Caucaea mimetica (Stacy) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase 2001 Photo by Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup Photo by Parkside Orchid Nursery

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Common Name The Grand Caucaea

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Southern Colombia and Venezuela in humid cloud forests at elevations around 2928 meters as a small sized epiphyte with elongate, ovoid, smooth pseudobulbs subtended by 2 to 3 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate leaf that is conduplicate into the apex of the pseudobulb and blooms in the spring on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from the leaf sheaths of a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Oncidium cucullatum Lindl. var. flavidum B.S.Williams in B.S.Williams 1871; *Oncidium mimeticum Stacy 1975; Oncidium mimeticum var. flavidum (B.S.Williams) Stacy 1975

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as Oncidium mimeticum; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as Oncidium mimeticum; Orquedias Nativas del Tachira Fernandez 2003; Orchids of Venezuela; An Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Oncidium mimeticum; Venezuela Orchids Dunsterville 1987 as Oncidium mimeticum; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005