Mormodes dasilvae Salazar 1993 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and photo by © Dan Souza Orchidstudium

EARLY

Common Name Da Silva's Mormodes [Brazilian discoverer of species current]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Para' Brazil in Amazon rainforests at elevations around 5 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid-fusiform, close set, several noded pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by several, imbricate sheaths and carrying numerous, plicate, acute, narrowing below into the canaliculate, pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, from the nodes on the lower half of the pseudobulb, to 11.2" [28 cm] long, to 18+ flowered inflorescence and carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest Vol 57 No 2 1993 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilenses Vol II Plate 168 Castro Neto 2006 drawing good/photo fide

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