Gomesa crispa [Lindley] Klotzsch ex Rchb.f 1852 Photo by Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo by Tony Watkinson and the Western Australia Orchid Society

What was known as G paranensis Photo by © Luiz Filipe Varela and his Flicker website

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Common Name The Curly Gomesa

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Goias, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, medium sized epiphyte with narrowly oblong-conical, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying 2, erect-spreading, membraneous, narrowly ligulate-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, long attenuate below leaves that blooms in the summer through the autumn on a pendant, 8" [20 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers and is an evergreen species that requires even water and fertilizer year round.

Synonyms Gomesa paranaensis Kraenzl. 1911; Gomesa undulata Hoffmanns. 1842; Odontoglossum crispatulum Rchb. f. 1864; *Rodriguezia crispa Lindley 1839

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #9 1975 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing ; Orchidaceae Brasilense Band II Pabst & Dungs 1977 as G paranensis drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as G paranensis; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006 as G paranensis; The Pictoral Encyclopedia of Oncidium Zelenko 2005; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchids of Brazil Vol 1 Oncidinae Baptista, Harding & Neto 2011 photo fide

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