Mormolyca schweinfurthiana Garay & M. Wirth 1959 Photo courtesy of of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name Schweinfurth's Mormolyca [American Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

From elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters in Peru as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome carrying well spaced, cylindrical, laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, basal, 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Cyrtoglottis peruviana C. Schweinf. 1945

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0111 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing good;

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