Mormodes horichii Fowlie 1964 SECTION Klotzschia
Photos by © Walter Schug
Photo by © Cesar Aguilar Salas
Photos by © by Gilberto Arrieche Sayago
Photo by © by Keith Uhlenhaut
Common Name Horich's Mormodes [German Orchid Collector 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica in wet Caribbean slope montane forests at elevations of 390 to 800 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with oblong-conical, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying plicate, elliptic leaves that blooms in the winter without leaves on a basal, to 8" [20 cm] long, 3 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence with 5 distant bracts and membraneous, triangular-ovate, acute floral bracts carrying fragrant flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 15 #2-3 1982 drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 877 Hamer/Dodson 1983 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992 drawing fide/photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 9 2001 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good; Orchid Digest Vol 80 # 2016 photo goof; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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