Mormodes horichii Fowlie 1964

Inflorescence Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Common Name Horich's Mormodes [German Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica in wet montane forests at elevations of 390 to 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with oblong-conical, slightly compressed pseudobulbs that are without leaves at blooming and carry plicate, elliptic leaves and blooms in the winter on a basal, to 8" [20 cm] long, 3 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence with 5 distant bracts and membraneous, triangular-ovate, acute floral bracts carrying fragrant flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 877 Hamer/Dodson 1983 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 9 2001 photo;

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