Gongora longiracemosa G Gerlach & J B Silva 2021
SUBGENUS Gongora SECTION Gongora
Photo by © Jaoa Batista Fernandes da Silva/TYPE Drawing by Alex Pinhiero
Common Name The Long Raceme Gongora [refers to its having the longest inflorescence within the genus]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Para state of Brazil in riparian forests at elevations around 200 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with aggregate, ovoid, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs partially enveloped by evanescent sheaths and carrying 2, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a pendent, 82.8" [207 cm] long, to 60 flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate, .
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileras 17 Campacci 2021 drawing/photos fide
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