Gongora truncata Lindley 1843 SECTION Eugongora SUBSECTION Scaphephora

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

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Bill Pinnix and Seal Rock Orchids

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Common Name The Supported Gongora

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala in moist moderately dense woodlands at elevations of 180 to 850 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ridged, conical to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to rarely 3, plicate, rigid leaves and blooms on a basal, pendant, to 36" [to 90 cm] long, several[15] to many [40] flowered inflorescence with sweetly scented flower that last less than one week

Synonyms Gongora donckelaariana Lem. 1858; Gongora truncata var. donckelaariana Lem. 1848

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8 drawing; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 4 1985 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 45 Hagsater and Salazar 1990 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 5 1991; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 3 2006 photo;

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