Gongora longipes Schltr. 1914

SECTION Scaphephora

Inflorescence Photos by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

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Common Name The Long Column Foot Gongora

Flower Size

Found in Colombia as a small sized epiphyte with ovoid, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic-acuminate, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and winter on a pendant several flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers.

Stated by some authors to be a synonym of G scaphephorus but many differences are obvious so I leave it separate.

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; 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 Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo/drawing fide;

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