Gongora leucochila Lem. 1845 SECTION Eugongora SUBSECTION Gongora

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Common Name The White Lipped Gongora

Flower Size [1.75 cm x 4 cm]

Found in Southern Mexico to Panama in tropical rainforests at elevations of sealevel to 1600 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid, coarsely and deeply ribbed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, plicate leaves and blooms in the spring on a pendent inflorescence with fragrant flowers. Often cited as a syn of G quinquenervis, I feel that it sufficiently different to be a separate entity.

Synonyms Gongora bufonia var. leucochila Lindl. 1847; Gongora maculata var. leucochila (Lindl.) C. Schweinf. 1960; Gongora powellii Schltr. 1922; Gongora quinquenervis var. leucochila (Lindl.) C. Schweinf. 1970

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970 as G quinquevulnervis vqar leuchochila; Guia Ilustrada Para la Clasificacion del Genero Gongora Toulemonde 2001; Icones Orchidacearum 5 - 6 Orchids of Mexico Part 2 - 3 Plate 587 Hagsater & Soto 2002; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005

Gongora leucochila Lem. 1845 var alba

Frontal View of FLower Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

A white color form of the previous species.