Caucaea cucullata (Lindl.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase 2001 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Cowl-Carrying Caucaea

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in Cauca State, southerm Colombia and northern Ecuador at elevations of 2500 to 4000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with clustered, egg to slightly pear-shaped, slightly compressed pseudobulbs are enveloped basally by several imbricating leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, linear to narrowly lanceolate, slightly leathery, acute leaves which blooms in the winter and spring on an axillary, erect, to suberect, racemose to loosely paniculate, fractiflex, several [8 to 12] flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying showy flowers. Sometimes cited as a synonym of C nubigena but seem to have visual differences that separate them.

Synonyms *Oncidium cucullatum Lindl. 1838; Oncidium cucullatum Lindl. var. macrochilum Lindl. 1855; Oncidium olivaceum var. macrochilum (Lindl.) Sander 1901

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich; Orchidaceae-Monandre, Tribus Oncidinae-Odontoglosseae Pars II Kranzl. [1922] 1957 as Oncidium cucullatum; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982 as Oncidium cucullatum; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as Oncidium cucullatum; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 as Oncidium cucullatum; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982 as Oncidium cucullatum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchdis Hawkes 1987 as Oncidium cucullatum; Orchidaenfloren Kordillerenstaaten 2: Colombia Schlechter 1920; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005