Mormodes lawrenceana Rolfe 1890 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Lawrence's Mormodes [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's and president of RHS]

Flower Size 2.5" [6.25 cm]

Found in Colombia as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with robust, erect, longitudinally rugose-sulcate in time pseudobulbs carrying 5 to7, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate below into the pseudopetilate base leaves that blooms on a lateral [almost anywhere on the side of the pseudobulb], ascending, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;

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