Accession Data:
Gongora cassidea Reichb.f.
- Common Name: The Helmut-Shaped Gongora
- Family: Orchidaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Mexico (Chiapas) to C. America
- Habitat: epiphytic on trees in humid forests up to 1800m
- Culture: Plants are usually grown in wooden baskets in partial shade. Use a well drain potting media such as medium fir bark with perlite, tree fern fibers, or sphagnum moss. Keep area humid and grow in warm temperatures. Keep mix moist but not dry. 3
Accession Data:
- Accession # 200202421
- Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College
- Provenance: Citation in Bot. Zeit. xxii. (1864) 298.
- Accession Date: 09-30-2002
- Bench: 3227 - ORCH:Paphs
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 01-04-2025
- Restrictions:
- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Asparagales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Orchidaceae
- SubFamily: Epidendroideae
- Tribe: Cymbidieae
- SubTribe: Stanhopeinae
Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 28 July 2014.
- WCSP (2014). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 28 July 2014.
- Gongora cassidea at Orchids Wiki. Accessed 23 May 2015.
data regenerated on Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:46:24 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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Subfamily Cypripedioideae
Tribe Cypripedieae
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- Paphiopedilinae: Paphiopedilum Harrisianum
- Paphiopedilinae: Paphiopedilum haynaldianum
Subfamily Cypripedioideae
Tribe Phragmipedieae
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium Calurum
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium Dominianum
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium Demetria
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium Schroederae
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium Lemoinierianum
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium longifolium
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Arethuseae
- Bletiinae: Bletilla striata
- Chysinae: Chysis bractescens
- Sobraliinae: Sobralia decora
- Sobraliinae: Sobralia decora x leucantha
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Coelogyneae
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne asperata
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne flaccida
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne lawrenceana
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne mayeriana
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne ovalis
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne rochussenii
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne speciosa
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne tomentosa
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne usitana
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum cobbianum
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum magnum
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum sp.
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum wenzelii
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum yuccifolium
- Coelogyninae: Pholidota imbricata
- Thuniinae: Thunia alba
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Collabieae
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Cymbidieae
- Catasetinae: Catasetum hybrid
- Catasetinae: Catasetum hybrid
- Catasetinae: Catasetum hybrid
- Cymbidiinae: Ansellia africana
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium aloifolium
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium dayanum 'Bolin'
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium finlaysonianum
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium sp.
- Eulophiinae: Eulophia andamanensis
- Eulophiinae: Eulophia guineensis
- Eulophiinae: Eulophia petersii
- Maxillariinae: Bifrenaria inodora
- Maxillariinae: Brasiliorchis schunkeana
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria callichroma
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria elatior
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria houtteana
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria pachyphylla
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria sanguinea
- Maxillariinae: Prominaea stapelioides x guttata
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria tenuifolia
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria variabilis
- Maxillariinae: Mormolyca hedwigiae
- Maxillariinae: Mormolyca ringens
- Maxillariinae: Mormolyca rufescens
- Maxillariinae: Ornithidium sophronitis
- Maxillariinae: Trigonidium egertonianum
- Oncidiinae: Brassia jipijapensis
- Oncidiinae: Brassia maculata majus
- Oncidiinae: Brassia verrucosa
- Oncidiinae: Lockhartia lunifera
- Oncidiinae: Lockhartia oerstedii
- Oncidiinae: Lockhartia oerstedii
- Oncidiinae: Miltonia clowesii
- Oncidiinae: Miltonia flavescens
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium altissimum
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium hybrid
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium hybrid
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium maculatum
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium sphacelatum
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium tigrinum
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium unidentified
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora cassidea
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora histrionica
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora quinquenervis var uncinata
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora rufescens
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora scaphephorus
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea assidensis (tigrina x wardii)
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea costaricensis
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea ecornuta
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea grandiflora
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea graveolens
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea intermedia
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea jenischiana
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea lietzei
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea oculata
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea platyceras
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea tigrina
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea tigrina var. nigroviolacea
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea tigrina x wardii
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea wardii
- Zygopetalinae: Pescatoria wallisii
- Zygopetalinae: Zygopetalum maculatum
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Dendrobieae
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum affine
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum affine
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum annamense
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum careyanum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum cheiri
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum corolliferum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum elegantulum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum falcatum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum flammuliferum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum gibbosum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum gibbosum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum grandiflorum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum hahlianum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lasiochilum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lepidum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lepidum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lepidum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lilacinum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lobbii
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum longiflorum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum longissimum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum morotaiense
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum purpureorhachis
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum roxburghii
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum roxburghii
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum tremulum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum vaginatum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium anceps
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium anosmum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium aphyllum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium bifalce
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium bigibbum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium brunneum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium chrysotropis
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium x delicatum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium farmeri
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium hymenanthum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium jenkinsii
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium kingianum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium lindleyi
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium lindleyi
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium moniliforme
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium nakaharae
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium plicatile
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium rigidum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium speciosum var. hillii
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium speciosum var. pedunculatum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium wassellii
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Tribe Epidendreae
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- Laeliinae: Barkeria melanocaulon
- Laeliinae: Brassavola cucullata
- Laeliinae: Brassavola nodosa
- Laeliinae: Brassocattleya hybrid
- Laeliinae: Cattleya purpurata var. werkhauseri
- Laeliinae: Cattleya trianae
- Laeliinae: Dinema polybulbon
- Laeliinae: Encyclia kennedyi
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum 'Max Valley'
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum oerstedii
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum radicans
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum rigidum
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum schlecterianum
- Laeliinae: Guarianthe bowringiana
- Laeliinae: Isabelia pulchella
- Laeliinae: Isochilus carnosiflorus
- Laeliinae: Laelia rubescens
- Laeliinae: Myrmecophila christinae
- Laeliinae: Myrmecophila tibicinis
- Laeliinae: Scaphyglottis confusa
- Laeliinae: Scaphyglottis longicaulis
- Pleurothallidinae: Acianthera aphthosa
- Pleurothallidinae: Acianthera casapensis
- Pleurothallidinae: Anathallis linearifolia 'D&M'
- Pleurothallidinae: Dracula pusilla
- Pleurothallidinae: Masdevallia hybrid
- Pleurothallidinae: Masdevallia infracta
- Pleurothallidinae: Myoxanthus affinis
- Pleurothallidinae: Octomeria unidentified
- Pleurothallidinae: Platystele pyriformis
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis longipedicellata
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis nuda
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis pedunculata
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis prolaticollaris
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis titan
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis truncata
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis unidentified
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis unidentified
- Pleurothallidinae: Specklinia brighamii
- Pleurothallidinae: Specklinia grobyi
- Pleurothallidinae: Specklinia tribuloides
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis argentata
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis argentata
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis immersa
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis megachlamys
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis quadrifida
- Pleurothallidinae: Trichosalpinx chamaelepanthes
- Pleurothallidinae: Zootrophion hirtzii
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Malaxideae
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Podochileae
- Eriinae: Ceratostylis retisquama
- Eriinae: Eria carinata
- Eriinae: Campanulorchis globifera
- Eriinae: Eria javanica
- Eriinae: Pinalia bractescens
- Eriinae: Pinalia copelandii
- Eriinae: Trichotosia velutina
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Vandeae
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- Aerangidinae: Microterangis hariotiana
- Aeridinae: Cleisocentron gokusingii
- Aeridinae: Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana
- Aeridinae: Robiquetia cerina
- Aeridinae: Sarcochilus hartmannii
- Aeridinae: Tuberolabium kotoense
- Aeridinae: Rhynchorides Thai Noi
- Aeridinae: Vanda tricolor var. suavis
- Angraecinae: Angraecum distichum
- Angraecinae: Angraecum sesquipedale
- Angraecinae: Jumellea arachnantha
- Polystachyinae: Neobenthamia gracilis
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Cranchideae
- Cranchidinae: Cladobium graminifolium
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Cranichideae
- Goodyerinae: Goodyera pubescens
- Goodyerinae: Ludisia discolor
- Prescottiinae: Prescottia plantaginifolia
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Diseae
- Satyriinae: Cynorkis calanthoides
- Satyriinae: Satyrium membranaceum
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Orchideae
- Orchidinae: Habenaria medusa
Subfamily Vanilloideae
Tribe Vanilleae
- Vanilla phalaenopsis
- Vanilla planifolia
- Vanilla planifolia variegata
- Vanilla pompona
- Vanilla roscheri
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