Gomesa crispa [Lindley] Klotzsch ex Rchb.f 1852 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Tony Watkinson and the Western Australia Orchid Society

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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, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005

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