Gongora psuedoatropurpurea Jenny 1990 SECTION Eugongora SUBSECTION Grossa Photo by © Mauro Rosim.
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page
LATE 
and EARLY
Common Name The Seemingly Black-Purple Gongora
Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]
Found in Colombia and Peru in tropical rain forests as a caespitose epiphyte with an ovoid, sulcate pseudobulb subtended by 2 loose, scarious sheaths and carrying 2 apical, widely elliptic, acute leaves that are conduplicate at the base forming a short petiole, blooming in the late winter and early spring on a basal, 1' [30 cm] long, pendant, few flowered racmose inflorescence with minute floral bracts and fragrant flowers [clove oil] arising on a mature pseudobulb.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 064 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 11 1996 photo;
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