Gongora armeniaca (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb. f. 1854 SECTION Acropera Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Yellow-Orange Gongora

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua in wet montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1350 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, ovoid, ribbed pseudobulbs carrying a pair of plicate, elliptic, acute, conduplicate below into the elongate petiole leaves and blooms on a pendulous, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence with rather waxy, apricot scented flowers occuring in the summer and fall.

Synonyms *Acropera armeniaca Lindl. & Paxton 1850-1; Acropera cornuta Klotzsch 1852; Gongora armeriaca subsp. cornuta (Klotzsch) Whitten 1991; Gongora cornuta (Klotzsch) Fowlie & Jenny 1985

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Paxt. Fl. Gard. 1: 94. 1850 as Acropera armeniaca; *Xenia Orchid.1: 52. 1854; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1020 Dodson 1984; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005