Caucaea phalaenopsis (Lindl. & Rchb. f.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase 2001 Photo by Eric Hunt

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Common Name Phalaenopsis-Like Oncidium

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

This is a southern Ecuadorian, small sized, cold to cool growing, epiphytic species occuring at elevations of 2700 to 2800 meters with very dark green, ovoid to ovoid-conical, sulcate in time pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, linear-oblanceolate, suberect-arcuate, subobtuse leaves that blooms on a slender, suberect to arcuate, to 2' [60 cm] long, few flowered raceme with up to 10, showy, fragrant flowers occuring in the spring, summer, fall and winter.

Synonyms Oncidium cucullatum var phalaenopsis [Lind. & Rchb.f]Nicholson 1901; Oncidium oliveaceum var phalaenopsis [Linden & Rchb.f] Sander; *Oncidium phalaenopsis Lindl. & Rchb. f. 1869

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich; Orchidaceae-Monandre, Tribus Oncidinae-Odontoglosseae Pars II Kranzl. [1922] 1957 as Oncidium cucullatum var phalaenopsis; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982 as Oncidium phalaenopsis; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as Oncidium phalaenopsis; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 as Oncidium phalaenopsis; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982 as Oncidium phalaenopsis; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchdis Hawkes 1987 as Oncidium cucullatum var phalaenopsis; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003, Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005