Brassavola cucullata

For other plants called "daddy longlegs", see Daddy longlegs § Life forms.

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]

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)

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]