Gongora grossa Rchb.f. 1877 SECTION Grossa
Another Color Flower Photos by Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name The Robust Gongora
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, southern Colombia and western Ecuador in tropical moist rainforests at elevations of 50 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with swollen, longitudinally ribbed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, broad, thin, plicate leaves that gradually narrow to a conduplicate petiole below that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a basal, pendant, 12" [30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying fishy, musty and sweaty gym clothes scented flwoers.
This species has the longest horns of the genus.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 4 1963 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 108 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 14 #3 1981 photo fide; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 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 photo not; Orchids Australia Vol 13 No 2 2001 photo; Guia Ilustrada Para la Clasificacion del Genero Gongora Toulemonde 2001 drawing/photo good; Guia Ilustrada Para la Clasificacion del Genero Gongora Toulemonde 2001 as G nigropunctata photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez as G sp pg152 bottom center photo fide; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016;
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