Barbosella cucullata (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl © To and

Common Name The Cowled Barbosella

Flower Size 1 1/4" [4 cm]

Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador Peru and Bolivia in dense brush at elevations of 1400 to 3450 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte to lithophyte in moss, with a very short, approximate stem carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, oblancolate, minutely tridentate apically leaf that is rough textured and blooms on an erect, terete, pale green, 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence holding the large flower well above the leaves occuring in the winter, spring and fall.

Synonyms Barbosella longiflora (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1921; Barbosella longipes Schltr. 1920; Barbosella rhynchantha (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) Schltr. 1918; Barbosella riograndensis Dutra ex Pabst 1959; Barbosella varicosa (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918; Masdevallia longiflora Kraenzl. 1925; Pleurothallis angustisegmenta C. Schweinf. 1942; Pleurothallis rhynchantha (Rchb. f. & Warsz.) L.O. Williams 1939; Restrepia cucullata Lindl. 1845; Restrepia rhynchantha Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854; Restrepia varicosa Lindl. 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Minaiture Orchids Northen 1980; Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986; Las Orquedias De Tachira Fernandez 2000; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 1 Dodson 1994; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch 2000; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst - Dungs 1977; Orchids of Venezuela Field Guide to Identification Dunsterville & Garay 1979;