Gongora truncata Lindley 1843 SECTION Scaphephora
Photos by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by © Bill Pinnix and Seal Rock Orchids
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EARLY
Common Name The Supported Gongora
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala in moist, moderately dense woodlands at elevations of 180 to 850 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ridged, conical to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 to rarely 3, plicate, rigid leaves and blooms on a basal, pendant, to 36" [to 90 cm] long, several[15] to many [40] flowered inflorescence with sweetly scented flowers that last less than one week
Synonyms Gongora donckelaariana Lem. 1858; Gongora truncata var. alba Nash 1917; Gongora truncata f. donckelaariana (Lem.) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 200; Gongora truncata var. donckelaariana Lem. 1848; Gongora truncata var. leucochila L.Linden 1894
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1927; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #8 1969 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8 drawing; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 14 #3 1981 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 4 1985 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 45 Hagsater and Salazar 1990 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 60 No 5 1991; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 1999 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 3 2006 photo; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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