Caucaea sanguinolenta (Lindl.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase Photo by Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Bleeding Caucaea [refers to the spots on the lip]

Flower Size .9" [2.2 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Colombia as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte occuring at elevations around 3000 meters pear to egg-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped basally by overlapping triangular sheaths and carrying a single apical, elliptic, acute leaf that is basally longitudinally folded along the midvein for a short distance, making a petiole-like stem that blooms on an axillary, 8" [20 cm] long, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence holding the wide spread flowers towards the apical third. ---Cited as a synonym of C nubigena but there are visual differences.

Synonyms *Leochilus sanguinolentus Lindl. 1844; Oncidium sanguinolentum (Lindl.) Schltr. 1844

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982 as Oncidium cucullatum; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as O sanguinolentum; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Orquedias de Tachira Fernandez 2003; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as O sanguinolentum; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as Oncidium sanguinolentum;