Gongora rufescens Jenny 1985 SECTION Gongora
Another Color Form Photos by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Inflorescence Photos by © Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Light Fox-Red Gongora
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
A medium sized, warm to cool growing, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian, caespitose epiphyte found at elevations of 800 to 1800 meters in wet montane forests in deep shade that has ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs subtended by a few imbricate, scarious sheaths and carrying 2 apical, attenuate, acuminate, thin, coriaceous, plicate, 3 ribbed, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, 18" long, arching to pendulous, several to many [18 to 30] flowered, racemose inflorescence that has tubular scarious bracts and carryies fragrant, simultaneously opening flowers and arise on a mature pseudobulb.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 065 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994; 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; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 3 2006 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 as G aromatica photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Jimenez & Jimenez 2014 photo fide; Orquideas Tesoro de Colombia Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 photo fide;
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