Mormodes badia Rolfe ex Watson 1897
Flower and it's Pollinator, a Euglossine bee Photos courtesy of Noble Bashor
Red Color Form Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor
Common Name The Dull Brown Red Mormodes
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Nayarit Mex, 884m elev., SW of Tepic. Epiphytic on Oak. Red variation see above. Yellow variationNayarit Mex., 915m elev.,5klm West of La Liberdad, Epiphytic on Oak. Brown VariationNayarit Mex, 884m elev., SW of Tepic. Epiphytic on Oak, found on same tree as the maroon variety.
This epiphytic herb is endemic to Mexico on the central Pacific coast in Nayarit and Jalisco states on decaying wood of oaks and other trees at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters with ovoid to ovoid-fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several white, leaf-bearing sheaths and a has deciduous, plicate, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acuminate leaves that blooms in the late fall and winter on a many [10 to 25] flowered, racemose, 18" [40cm] long, ascending inflorescence that arises from the mid-section of a mature leafless pseudobulb and has showy, simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers, after all the leaves have yellowed and fallen off. As the leaves begin to die back in the early fall it is time to withhold water and fertilizer and within a month or so the bloom spike is initiated and the flowers arrive, then by late winter to early spring the new growth will arise denoting the time for watering and fertilizing anew.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 64 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 Drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 1 1994 photo fide
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