Caucaea dayana (Rchb. f.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase 2001

Another Color Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name Day's Caucaea [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peruat elevations of 2300 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with egg to pear-shaped, slightly laterally compressed pseuodbulbs enveloped basally by several imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 apical, linear to narrowly lanceolate, slightly leathery, acute leaves that are also dorsally folded longitudinally and keeled below which bloom in the fall and winter on an axillary, erect to suberect, to 12" [30 cm] long, racemose to loosely paniculate, fractiflex inflorescence arising from the leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 8 to 12 showy flowers.

Synonyms *Oncidium cucullatum var. dayanum Rchb. f. 1871; Oncidium dayanum (Rchb. f.) Stacy 1975; Oncidium phalaenopsis var brandtiae hort.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 528 Bennett & Christenson 1998 as Oncidium dayanum; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982 as Oncidium dayanum; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as Oncidium dayanum;

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