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Mormodes greenei is an orchid species identified by Hook.f. in 1869. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Mormodes uncia.
ORIGIN: Found only in Oaxaca Mexico in the Sierra Madre de Sur on rotten logs in deep humus accumulations in moderately dry cloud forest at elevations of 1700 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ovoid to ovoid-fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying distichous, plicate, narrowly elliptic, acute, basally clasping and articulate to the leaf sheaths below that blooms in the spring on a basal, one-sided, racemose, 6 [15 cm] long, few to several flowered, arcuate, pendulous inflorescence arising on the most recent matured pseudobulb as a new growth arises with subacute, ovate floral bracts and monomorphic, protrandric, wide open, resupinate flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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