Mormodes sinuatum Rchb. f. & Warsc. 1878 Photo courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Another Flower from Mexico? 2 1/4" [6.1 cm] Photo courtesy by Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Crooked Mormodes

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

A small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte that is found on older rotting tree branches from Venezuela and Brazil with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by grey nervose sheaths becoming evanescent with age, and carrying, thin, plicate, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms on 1 or 2 ascending, few to several [8 to 15] flowered inflorescence that arises from the lower half of a mature pseudobulb with or without leaves and has slightly fragrant flowers that occur in the spring.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966;