Gongora cassidea Rchb. f. 1864 SECTION Acropera
Plant and InflorescencePhoto by © Milan Vagner
Common Name The Helmut-Shaped Gongora
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This medium sized, cool to warm growing, epiphytic species is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica on trees in humid forests at altitudes up to 1800 meters with ovoid-conical, slightly compressed, longitudinally ribbed, light green pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, plicate, lanceolate to elliptic lanceolate, petiolate, acuminate leaves and blooms in the fall with waxy, fragrant flowers on a basal, to 12" [30 cm] long, pendant, loosely few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acropera batemanni Lindley 1874; Gongora batemanii Henshall 1845
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 811 Dodson 1983; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005
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