Gongora rufescens Jenny 1985 SECTION Eugongora SUBSECTION Gongora
ANother Color Form Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Light Fox-Red Gongora
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
A medium sized, warm growing, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian, caespitose epiphyte found at elevations of 800 to 1800 meters in wet montane forests in deep shade that has ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs subtended by a few imbricate, scarious sheaths and carrying 2 apical, attenuate, acuminate, thin, coriaceous, plicate, 3 ribbed, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaves a basal, 18" long, arching to pendulous, several to many [18 to 30] flowered, racemose inflorescence that has tubular scarious bracts with fragrant, simultaneously opening flowers occuring in the summer and fall and arising on a mature pseudobulb.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 065 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; Guia Ilustrada Para la Clasificacion del Genero Gongora Toulemonde 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 3 2006 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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