Species Description
Gongora armeniaca botanical illustration from Edwards Botanical Magazine.
Gongora armeniaca is a very free-growing compact plant, attaining to about a foot in height; pseudobulbs somewhat oval, bearing on the top two broad light green leaves, and from the base producing a rather lax, many-flowered, pendulous raceme, a foot or more in length, supporting from twelve to twenty of its rich yellow flowers, slightly spotted with red; blooms very freely through the summer months, and is a very desirable plant for a basket.
Synonyms
- Acropera armeniaca
Publications
- Curtis’s botanical magazine vol. 91 (Ser. 3 no. 21) plate 5501.