Gongora latisepala Rolfe 1918 SECTION Gongora
View From Rear Photos by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Another FlowerPhoto by © Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page
Common Name The Broad Sepal Gongora
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane, primary forests at elevations of 700 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte 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; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999; Guia Ilustrada Para la Clasificacion del Genero Gongora Toulemonde 2001 drawing/photo fide; 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 =?; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Jimenez & Jimenez 2014 photo fide; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo/drawing fide;
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