Mormodes aromatica Lindl. 1841
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Aromatic Mormodes
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras at elevations around 1000 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with fusiform, lightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricate, distichous, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying several distichous, plicate, three nerved leaves held towards teh apex that bloom sin the late spring and early summer on a basal, erect to horizontal, terete, green, to 12.8" [32 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 36 No 6 1972 photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok
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