Mormodes luxata Lindl. 1842 Photo By Eduardo A. Pérez García
Another View not! Photo By Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Bizarre Mormodes [refers to the flowering on a new growth with the rest of plant in full leaf]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found only on the Pacific slopes of Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan states of Mexico on large oaks in pine-oak forests at elevations of 1400 to 2100 meters with clustered, ellipsoid-ovoid, strongly wrinkled with age pseudobulbs carrying plicate, rather narrow, soon deciduous leaves which flowers that blooms in the winter as the new growth arises and the plant is still in full leaf and has a lateral, 8 to 18" [25 to 40 cm] long, 20 to 40 flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying fragrant, waxy, long-lasting flowers.
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 6 1972 photo fide for the 1st only; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985;
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