Caucaea phalaenopsis

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Caucaea phalaenopsis']

No common name has yet been provided in this gallery nor in wikidata 'Caucaea phalaenopsis'

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Cymbidieae • Subtribus: Oncidiinae • Genus: Caucaea • Species: Caucaea phalaenopsis (Linden & Rchb.f.) N.H. Williams & M.W. Chase (2001)

Synonyms

Basionym
- Oncidium phalaenopsis Linden & Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. 1869: 416 (1869)
Homotypic synonyms
- Oncidium cucullatum var. phalaenopsis (Linden & Rchb.f.) G.Nicholson, Ill. Dict. Gard. 2: 485 (1886)
- Oncidium olivaceum var. phalaenopsis (Linden & Rchb.f.) Sander, Sander's Orch. Guide: 188 (1901)
Heterotypic synonyms
- Oncidium cucullatum var. spathulatum Lindl., Fol. Orchid. 6: 22 (1855)
- Oncidium cucullatum var. dayanum Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. 1871: 834 (1871)
- Oncidium phalaenopsis var. excellens Lindl., Lindenia 4: 232 (1894)
- Oncidium chimborazoense Stacy, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 24: 164 (1975)
- Oncidium dayanum (Rchb.f.) Stacy, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 24: 150 (1975)
- Oncidium spathulatum (Lindl.) Stacy, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 24: 148 (1975)
- Caucaea chimborazoensis (Stacy) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 283 (2001)
- Caucaea dayana (Rchb.f.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 283 (2001)
- Caucaea spathulata (Lindl.) N.H.Williams & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 284 (2001)

Flowers

Caucaea phalaenopsis
Caucaea phalaenopsis

Botanical illustrations

Caucaea phalaenopsis
(as syn.
Oncidium phalaenopsis)
plate 3 in:
Charles Antoine Lemaire:
L'Illustration horticole
(Orchidaceae),
vol. 17,
(1870)
Caucaea phalaenopsis
(as syn.
Oncidium phalaenopsis)
Plate 96 in:
R.Warner - B.S.Williams:
The Orchid Album
(1882-1897)
Caucaea phalaenopsis
(as syn.
Oncidium phalaenopsis)
plate 123 in:
Jean Jules Linden
L. Linden & E. Rodigas:
Lindenia
(1885-1906)

Native distribution areas
Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition Southern America Western South America Colombia, Ecuador.

References

Description of taxon

Williams, N.H. & Chase, M.W. (2001) Lindleyana 16 (4): 283.

Selected Bibliography

Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (eds.) (2014) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 5: Epidendroideae (Part two); page 235 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198507130

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Caucaea phalaenopsis.