Gongora latisepala Rolfe 1918 SECTION Eugongora SUBSECTION Gongora
View From Rear Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Another FlowerPhoto courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page
Common Name The Broad Sepal Gongora
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This medium sized, hot to warm growing caespitose epiphyte occurs in Colombia and Peru in wet montane, primary forests at elevations of 700 to 1400 meters with ovoid to ovoid-pyriform, sulcate, obtuse or acutely angled pseudobulbs with 2 apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, ribbed, leaves with a channeled petiole that blooms in the summer on a 14 to 20" [35 to 50 cm] long, pendant raceme with several to many [18 to 39], simultaneously opening flowers arising on a mature pseudobulb.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 061 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Guia Ilustrada Para la Clasificacion del Genero Gongora Toulemonde 2001; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo not =?
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