Gongora caucanensis has two characteristics that quickly distinguish it from many of the other species. First it lacks horns at the apex of the hypochile and has a minute lobe at the base of the labellum. Fongora caucanensis Sauleda and Uribe-Velez. lant epiphytic with short rhizomes; pseudobulbs clustered, ovate, ridged, to 4 cm tall, 3 cm vide, bifoliate; leaves petiolate, broadly oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, to 18 cm long, 5 ‘m wide, petiole to 4 cm long; inflorescence pendent, to 25 cm long, to 19-flowered, floral yracts triangular, appre ninute purple spots, el ateral sepals green wit eflexed, with revolute iptic, acute, h minute pur edges, to 2.4 nding in two long acu e bristles, to yurple spots on the hypochile, to 2.4 nesochile tips extended and apiculate, terminating in dark purple, hump distinct; epichile ipiculate, recurved; column greenis *m long, 0.3 cm wide; anther cap green. ssed, acute, to 2 mm long, 2 mm wide; dorsal sepal green with o 2 cm long, 0.5 cm wide, edges slightly revolute; ple spots, asymmetrically triangular, truncate, acute, cm long, 0.8 cm wide; petals greenish-yellow, linear, 1.4 cm long, 0.3 cm wide; labellum white with minute cm long, | cm wide; hypochile without horns; h-white with dark reddish-brown spots, curved, to 2.4 zongora caucanensis Sauleda and Uribe-Velez. Gongora aceras Dressler. Gongora antioquiensis Uribe-Velez, and Sauleda & Szlachetko. Gongora bota-caucanensis Sauleda, Szlachetko Uribe-Velez. Gongora niesseniae Sauleda, Szlachetko Uribe-Velez. Gongora aromatica Rchb. f.