Gongora horichiana Fowlie 1965
SECTION Armeniaca Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Flower CloseupPhoto by Patricia Harding
InflorescencePhoto by Mark Whitten
Common Name Horich's Gongora [German Orchid Collector Costa Rica later 1900's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, ridged, often somewhat laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3, papery, imbricating sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a basal, 12" [30 cm] long, pendant, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with fragrant sweet floral scented flowers.
Synonyms Gongora armeniaca var. bicornuta C.Schweinf. & P.H.Allen 1948
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 #5 1962 as G armeniaca var bicornutaphoto fide; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 2/3 1977/8 drawing; Orquideologia Vol 14 #3 1981 as G armeniaca var bicornuta photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 14 #3 1981 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 5 1985 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 5 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 11 1996 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 2 Hammell, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016
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