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 Peru at elevations of 2300 to 3200 meters as a small sized, 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, dorsally folded longitudinally and keeled below, acute leaves that 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.
CAUTION Now being considered to be a synonym of C phalaenopsis but the callus of the lip is different so I have left them separate for now.
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 drawing fide; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982 as Oncidium dayanum; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 as Oncidium dayanum photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 asOncidium dayanum; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 10 2000 photo AS Oncidium dayanum; *Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 as Oncidium dayanum; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 3 2005 as Oncidium dayanum photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006 as Oncidium dayanum;
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