Mormodes cozticxochitl Salazar 1990 Photo by Alfred Lau courtesy of Eric Hagsater © All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Yellow Flowered Mormodes

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found from Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexcio in warm pine-oak forests at elevations around 900 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with several noded, ovoid to cylindric-fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped by papery leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying several, plicate, articulate, deciduous, absent at flowering leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a lateral, erect to ascending, to 14" [to 35 cm] long, 10 to 12 flowered inflorescence arisisng on a mature leafless pseudobulb carrying simultaneously opening, non-resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 624 Hagsater & Soto 2002 Drawing fide;

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