Caucaea andigena (Linden & Rchb. f.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase 2001 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Andean Caucaea

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at higher elevations around 2440 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with pear-shaped to cylindrical, laterally compressed pseudobulbs, that are enveloped basally by several imbricating, scarious sheaths, carrying, a single, apical, elliptical, acute leaf that is grooved along the midvein dorsally and sharply keeled beneath which blooms in the summer on an axillary, to 12" [30 cm] long, to 8 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a just developing pseudobulb carrying the flowers more towards the apex.

Synonyms *Oncidium andigenum Linden & Rchb. f. 1869; Oncidium cucullatum var. andigenum (Linden & Rchb. f.) hort. 1882;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich; Orchidaceae-Monandre, Tribus Oncidinae-Odontoglosseae Pars II Kranzl. [1922] 1957 as Oncidium andigenum; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Oncidium andigenum; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as Oncidium andigenum; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Oncidium andigenum Caucaea Group; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2002; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; Orchid Species Culture; Oncidium Bakers 2006 as Oncidium andigenum; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005