Mormodes andreettae Dodson 1982 Photo courtesy of Ruth Guillard
Another Angle Photos courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name Andreettea's Mormodes [Ecuadorian priest and Orchid enthusiast current]
Flower Size 2 2/5" [6 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome carrying swollen, fleshy, several noded pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, tubular, scarious foliaceous leaf sheaths consisting of elliptical, acute, thin, plicate, distichous, deciduous, basally clasping leaves that when fallen leave a spine on the sheath at midvein and blooms on a lower to midnode, erect, to 14" [to 35 cm] long, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence arising on a maturing leafed pseudobulb and carrying large flowers occuring in the late spring through winter.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 462 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Native Colombiaqn Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as M sp #4069 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide;
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