Mormodes lineata Bateman ex Lindl. 1841

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Common Name The Longitudinally Striped Mormodes

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oblong-conic, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by clasping sheaths that give rise to plicate, elliptic-oblong leaves that are deciduous and not present at blooming which occurs in the fall and winter on a basal, [22 cm] long, several [15] flowered, racemose inflorescence with fragrant flowers. Flowers on the same inflorescence can be polymorphic or in other words have different shapes.

Synonyms Mormodes histrio Linden & Rchb.f. 1859

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 6 1959 photo; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;

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