Mormodes fractiflexa Rchb. f. 1872 SECTION Mormodes
Photo by © Bogarin and The Epidendra Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica
Photos by © Jeremy Quesada Gonzalez
Photo by © Gilberto Arrieche Sayago
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Common Name The Rolled Inward Mormodes
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 250 meters as a medium sized, warm growing, deciduous epiphyte with fascinating flowers that arrive in the winter and have a nice scent, are on an ascending inflorescence that arise from the mid section of a mature pseudobulb. that likes water and fertilizer after a 2" new growth has been initiated, and then water much less after the leaf fall, and blooms on a leafless plant in the winter.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 7 1995 photos fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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