Gomesa recurva Lodd 1822

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup in situ in Rio de Janiero Botanical Garden

Plant ensitu Alto de la Serra Do Moji Dos Cruzes, Sao Paulo state Brazil elevation 150 meters Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo courtesy of © Stefan Paeffgen and

Common Name The Bent Gomesa

Flower Size .8 [2 cm]

Found in SE Brazil in cool mountains at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with narrowly ovoid, ancipitous, compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, erect, coriaceous, linear-oblanceolate, acute, longly conduplicate below leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an arcuate, axillary, nodding, 4 to 13" [10 to 35 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with small, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Epidendrum inflexum Vell. 1831; Gomesa densiflora Hoffmanns. 1842; Odontoglossum recurvum Rchb. f. 1864; Rodriguezia recurva Lindl. 1852;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;