Gongora retrorsa Rchb.f. 1854 SECTION Gongora Photos by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

Common Name The Bent Gongora

Flower Size

Found in western Venezuela as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with aggregate, ovoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying membraneous, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a pendent, thin, longer than the leaves, 28" to 36" [70 to 90 cm] long, well spaced, many flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Often cited as a synonym of G quinquevulnervis but has been separated again in more recent years

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as G quinquevulnervis; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as G quinquevulnervis; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999;

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