Mormodes maculatum (Klotzsch) L.O. Williams 1850 Photo By © Amorin
Solid color variety Photo By Weyman Bussey
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Common Name The Spotted Mormodes
Flower Size 1 3/4" [5 cm]
This medium to large sized, warm to hot growing species is endemic to Jalisco?, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Puebla states of Mexico and found as an 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 on a racemose, arcuate, to 20" [50 cm]long, one-sided inflorescence that arises from the base of an immature growth, with up to 30, showy, facing upwards, foul smelling flowers occuring in the fall and early winter.
Synonyms *Cyclosia maculata Klotzsch 1838; Mormodes pardina Batem. 1838
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala Bateman 1843 as M pardina drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Icones Orchidacearum I plate 65 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide to the first photo
Mormodes maculatum var. unicolor (Hook. f.) L.O. Williams 1950
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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
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
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