Mormodes maculatum (Klotzsch) L.O. Williams 1850 SECTION Coryodes

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Solid color variety

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Another Color Form

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Common Name The Spotted Mormodes

Flower Size 1 3/4" [5 cm]

Found in Jalisco?, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Puebla states of Mexico and Guatemala as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte and occasional terrestrial in mountain rain forest on rotten wood at altitudes of 600 to 2200 meters with cylindric-fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate, scarious leaf sheaths that carry plicate, deciduous, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a racemose, arcuate, to 20" [50 cm] long, one-sided inflorescence that arises from the base of an immature growth, carrying up to 30, showy, facing upwards, foul smelling.

Synonyms *Cyclosia maculata Klotzsch 1838; Mormodes pardina Batem. 1838

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI The Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala Bateman 1843 as M pardina drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as M pardinum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orquideologia Vol 15 #2-3 1982 drawing ok; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 11 Salazar 1988 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum I plate 65 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide to the first photo; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

Mormodes maculatum var. unicolor (Hook. f.) L.O. Williams 1950 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Found in Mexico as a medium to large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte, that has a disagreeable odor, but beautiful longer lasting, yellow flowers that occur in the fall and early winter.

Synonyms Mormodes pardina var. unicolor Hook. 1841

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 11 Salazar 1988 drawing/photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 as M unicolor photo fide

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