Mormodes atropurpurea Lindl.1836 Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez

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Common Name The Dark Purple Mormodes

Flower Size

Found in Panama, Guyana and Brazilat elevations around 540 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongate, fusiform, several noded, pseudobulb carrying 8 to 9, plicate, deciduous leaves that blooms on a, from near the middle of the pseudobulb, stout, several flowered inflorescences

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 as M sinuata drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 8 1961 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as M sinuata drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;

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