Gongora galeata(Lindl. ex Bosse) Rchb.f.

WFO wfo-0000974404 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gongora galeata, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. a Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-30 / obs. 92935916
Gongora galeata, photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera
fig. b Daniel Pineda Vera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92935908
Gongora galeata, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. c Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 57935944
Gongora galeata, photographed by Victor De la Cruz
fig. d Victor De la Cruz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20944093
Gongora galeata, photographed by Alec McClay
fig. e Alec McClay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178363689
Gongora galeata, photographed by Adriana García Ramírez
fig. f Adriana García Ramírez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106155734
Gongora galeata, photographed by Victor De la Cruz
fig. g Victor De la Cruz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110986363
Gongora galeata, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. h Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10557957

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Gongora galeata is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Guatemala Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestGuatemala
Native distribution of Gongora galeata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Guatemala GUA SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 72 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.6 °C 11.5 °C 14.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.5 °C 25.5 °C 28.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,548 mm 1,959 mm 3,079 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 92 mm 182 mm 265 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 72 research-grade observations of Gongora galeata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acropera atropurpurea Heynh.
  • Acropera citrina Rchb.f.
  • Acropera flavida Klotzsch
  • Acropera flavirostris Hoffmanns.
  • Acropera fuscata hort.
  • Acropera fuscata Heynh.
  • Acropera galeata (Lindl. ex Bosse) Archila, Szlach. & Chiron
  • Acropera loddigesii Lindl.
  • Acropera luteola Drapiez
  • Acropera luteola Heynh.
  • Acropera pallida Heynh.
  • Acropera purpurea Heynh.
  • Acropera sulphurea Heynh.
  • Gongora fuscata (Heynh.) Gentil
  • Gongora galeata f. luteola (Drapiez) O.Gruss & M.Wolff
  • Gongora galeata var. loddigesii (Lindl.) Autran & T.Durand
  • Maxillaria galeata Lindl. ex Bosse
  • Maxillaria galeata Lindl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.