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Gongora grossa

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Gongora grossa found in Venezuela, southern Colombia and western Ecuador in tropical moist rainforests at elevations of 50 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with swollen, longitudinally ribbed pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, broad, thin, plicate leaves that gradually narrow to a conduplicate petiole below that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a basal, pendant, 30 cm long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying fishy, musty and sweaty gym clothes scented flwoers.

This species has the longest horns of the genus.

Flower photo Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons