Mormodes igneum Lindl. & Paxton 1852-3
Closeup of Lip Structure and Column Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Plant and Flower in situ Panama Photo by Wilfried Löderbusch
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Common Name The Fire-Red Mormodes
Flower Size to more than 2" [to more than 5 cm]
Found as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia at elevations around 900 meters with cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying lanceolate, acuminate prominently veined leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, to more than 2' [60 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers all arising after the deciduous leaves have fallen in the autumn.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 54. Panama Schlechter 1922; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 8 1961 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 3 1963 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 no 4 1963 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 7 1963 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 7 1964 ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
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