!Gongora quinquenervis Ruiz and Pavon 1798 SECTION Eugongora SUBSECTION Gongora
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Different Color Form - This particular clone is from Tortuguero, Costa Rica. It was rescued from the jaws of a clear cutting operation (a local Costa Rican firm was busily turning the virgin forest near Cano Palma into plywood. No joke... I've got photos of the whole sordid -- but, lamentably, legal under local laws -- affair). Text by Joe Dougherty Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty
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Common Name The Five-Lined Gongora
Flower Size to about 2" [5 cm]
Flying dragons, with a sweet scent, easy to grow in a teak basket. From Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana and Trinidad as a large epiphyte in humid forests up to 1400 meters in elevation with ovoid-oblong to conical, deeply grroved and ridged pseudobulbs carrying 3, apical, lanceolate, ligulate or elliptic obovate, acute, plicate, suberect, shortly petiolate leaves with undulate margins and has a 2' [60 cm]long, pendulous, usually dark red, loosely many, flowered inflorescence that blooms in late spring till fall with fragrant, inverted flowers.
Synonyms Cirrhaea atropurpurea hort. ex Stein ?; Gongora atropurpurea Hooker 1827; Gongora boothiana hort. ex Rchb. f. 1854; Gongora fulva var. vitellina Lindl. 1841; Gongora galeottiana A.Rich. 1845; Gongora heisteri Hort. ex Rchb.f 1858; Gongora jenischii hort. ex Rchb. f. 1854; Gongora leucochila Lem. 1845; Gongora luteola Stein 1892; Gongora maculata var. tricolor (Rchb. f.) Lindl. 1844; Gongora nigrita Lindley 1839; Gongora odoratissima Lem. 1847; Gongora quadricornis hort. ex Rchb. f. 1854; Gongora retrorsa Rchb.f 1854; Gongora shepherdii hort. ex Rchb. f. 1854; Gongora vitellina hort. ex Rchb. f. 1854 ]
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 748 Dodson 1982; Guia Ilustrada Para la Clasificacion del Genero Gongora Toulemonde 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002;
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