Brassavola cucullata

Daddy long-legs orchid
	1829 illustration from; Curtis's botanical magazine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Genus:	Brassavola
Species:	B. cucullata
Binomial name
	Brassavola cucullata; (L.) R. Br. (1813)
Synonyms
	Epidendrum cucullatum L. (1763) (Basionym); Cymbidium cucullatum (L.) Sw. (1799); Brassavola cuspidata Hook. (1839); Brassavola appendiculata A. Rich. & Galeotti (1845); Brassavola odoratissima Regel (1852); Bletia cucullata (L.) Rchb.f. (1862); Bletia cucullata var. cuspidata (Hook.) Rchb.f. (1862); Brassavola cucullata var. elegans Schltr. (1919);

Brassavola cucullata, common name daddy long-legs orchid, is a species of orchid native to Mexico (from Sinaloa and San Luis Potosí south to Chiapas and the Yucatán Peninsula), Belize, Central America, the West Indies and northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guinea).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Brassavola cucullatais the type species for the genus Brassavola, and the only member of B. sect. Brassavola. The diploid chromosome number of B. cucullata has been determined as 2n = 40.^[5]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". wcsp.science.kew.org.
^ Fernández-Concha, Germán Carnevali; Tapia-Muñoz, José Luis; Jiménez-Machorro, Rolando; Sánchez-Saldaña, Luis; Ibarra-González, León; Ramírez, Ivón M.; Gómez, Mauro P. (2001). "NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA II: A SYNOPSIS OF THE ORCHID FLORA OF THE MEXICAN YUCATAN PENINSULA AND A TENTATIVE CHECKLIST OF THE ORCHIDACEAE OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA BIOTIC PROVINCE". Harvard Papers in Botany. 5 (2): 383–466. ISSN 1043-4534.
^ Hamer, Fritz. "ORCHIDS OF CENTRAL AMERICA: An Illustrated Field Guide (A-L)". Selbyana. 10 (Supplement): 50. OCLC 19560208.
^ V. Funk; T. Hollowell; P. Berry; C. Kelloff; S. N. Alexander (July 31, 2007). Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History.
^ Felix, Leonardo P.; Guerra, Marcelo (25 June 2010). "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 163 (2): 250. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x.

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[jencallen-1] "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". wcsp.science.kew.org.

[2] Fernández-Concha, Germán Carnevali; Tapia-Muñoz, José Luis; Jiménez-Machorro, Rolando; Sánchez-Saldaña, Luis; Ibarra-González, León; Ramírez, Ivón M.; Gómez, Mauro P. (2001). "NOTES ON THE FLORA OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA II: A SYNOPSIS OF THE ORCHID FLORA OF THE MEXICAN YUCATAN PENINSULA AND A TENTATIVE CHECKLIST OF THE ORCHIDACEAE OF THE YUCATAN PENINSULA BIOTIC PROVINCE". Harvard Papers in Botany. 5 (2): 383–466. ISSN 1043-4534.

[3] Hamer, Fritz. "ORCHIDS OF CENTRAL AMERICA: An Illustrated Field Guide (A-L)". Selbyana. 10 (Supplement): 50. OCLC 19560208.

[4] V. Funk; T. Hollowell; P. Berry; C. Kelloff; S. N. Alexander (July 31, 2007). Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History.

[5] Felix, Leonardo P.; Guerra, Marcelo (25 June 2010). "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 163 (2): 250. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2010.01059.x.

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Taxon identifiers
Brassavola cucullata	Wikidata: Q4957913 Wikispecies: Brassavola cucullata EoL: 1120520 EPPO: BSVCU GBIF: 5314181 GRIN: 7626 iNaturalist: 130066 IPNI: 618026-1 IRMNG: 10207813 ITIS: 43729 NCBI: 123110 Plant List: kew-24187 PLANTS: BRCU POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:618026-1 Species+: 24975 Tropicos: 23503196 WCSP: 24187 WFO: wfo-0000400321
Epidendrum cucullatum	Wikidata: Q39323330 GRIN: 404256 IPNI: 631678-1 IRMNG: 10793869 ITIS: 512898 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:631678-1 Tropicos: 23514450

Daddy long-legs orchid

1829 illustration from Curtis's botanical magazine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Genus:	Brassavola
Species:	B. cucullata
Binomial name
*Brassavola cucullata* (L.) R. Br. (1813)
Synonyms^[1]
Epidendrum cucullatum L. (1763) (Basionym) Cymbidium cucullatum (L.) Sw. (1799) Brassavola cuspidata Hook. (1839) Brassavola appendiculata A. Rich. & Galeotti (1845) Brassavola odoratissima Regel (1852) Bletia cucullata (L.) Rchb.f. (1862) Bletia cucullata var. cuspidata (Hook.) Rchb.f. (1862) Brassavola cucullata var. elegans Schltr. (1919)