Gomesa crispa [Lindley] Klotzsch ex Rchb.f 1852 Photo courtesy of © Stefan Paeffgen

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Common Name The Curly Gomesa

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

A cool growing, medium sized, Brazilian epiphyte with narrowly oblong-conical, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulb carrying 2, erect-spreading, membraneous, narrowly ligulate-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, long attenuate below leaves that blooms in the summer through the autumn on a pendant, 8" [20 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers and is an evergreen species that requires even water and fertilizer year round.

Synonyms Gomesa undulata Hoffmanns. 1842; Odontoglossum crispatulum Rchb. f. 1864; *Rodriguezia crispa Lindley 1839

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005