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Orchid Species: Gongora tridentata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Gongora tridentata is an orchid species identified by Whitten in 1991.
ORIGIN: Found in Chiapas Mexico and Guatemala in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in secondary vegetation of wet montaine rainforest at elevations of 1100 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool-growing epiphyte with ovoid, sulcate, somewhat compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, arching, plicate, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, acuminate, 3 nerved, longly attenuate into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer on a basal, 1 to 2 per mature pseudobulb, racemose, 4 to 6 simultaneously flowered, 6 [15 cm] long, erect then pendant inflorescence arising with a new growth with a fractiflex rachis with lanceolate, acuminate, close, scarious floral bracts and carrying very fragrant non-resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.45 inches [1.6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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