Caucaea nubigena (Lindl.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase 2001 Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler.

White Flower Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hawk Hill Nursery

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Common Name The Mist Growing Oncidium

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at 2500 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, cold to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, narrowly ovoid to conical, somewhat compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of imbricating sheaths and carrying 1 or 2 apical, linear-elliptic ot oblanceolate, acute or acuminate leaves that blooms on a 2' [60 cm] long, slender, erect or arching, purplish green in color, loosely paniculate or racemose inflorescence with several to many [3 to 12], small to medium sized, variable colored flowers occuring in the fall and winter. Cited as a synonomous with C cucullata and C sanguineolentum but seem to have visual differences that separate them

Synonyms Oncidium cucullatum Lindl. 1838; Oncidium cucullatum Lindl. var. dolabratum J.E.Stacy 1975; Oncidium cucullatum Lindl. var. macrochilum Lindl. 1855; Oncidium cucullatum var. nubigenum (Lindl.) Lindl. 1855; *Oncidium nubigenum Lindl.1833; Oncidium olivaceum var. macrochilum (Lindl.) Sander 1901; Oncidium olivaceum var. nubigenum (Lindl.) Sande 1901

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Das Pflanzenreich; Orchidaceae-Monandre, Tribus Oncidinae-Odontoglosseae Pars II Kranzl. [1922] 1957 as Oncidium nubigenum; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 as Oncidium nubigenum; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982 as as Oncidium nubigenum; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as as Oncidium nubigenum; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 as as Oncidium nubigenum; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982 as as Oncidium nubigenum; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchdis Hawkes 1987 as as Oncidium cucullatum var nubigenum; Oncidium Vol 2 Koniger 2005 as Oncidium nubigenum; Orchid Species Culture, Oncidium Bakers 2006 as Oncidium nubigenum; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005