Mormodes elegans F.E.L.Miranda 1989 SECTION Mormodes Photo by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

Another Flower Photo by © Mauro Rosim

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Elegant Mormodes

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Bolivia and Rondonia Brazil at elevations around 100 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, elliptic-lanceolate, wider near the base, slightly laterally compressed pseudobulbs and carrying numerous, linear-lanceolate, acute, basally clasping with a caniculated, pseudo-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, 24" [60 cm] long, to 20+ flowered inflorecence arising from the nodes on the lower half of the pseudobulb, and has 4 to 5, amplexicaul bracts and triangular floral bracts with all the flowers held in the apical 1/3.

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ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0355 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide/ photo fide; Icones Brasilenses II Plate 170 Castro 2006 drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo fide;

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