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Mormodes unicolor is an orchid species name for which no taxonomic record was found. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Mormodes maculata.
ORIGIN: This medium to large sized, warm to cold growing species is endemic to Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Puebla states of Mexico and found as an epiphyte and occasional terrestrial in mountain rain forest on rotten wood at altitudes of 600 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This medium to large sized, warm to cold growing species is endemic to Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Puebla states of Mexico and found as an epiphyte and occasional terrestrial in mountain rain forest on rotten wood at altitudes of 600 to 2200 meters with cylindric-fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate, scarious leaf sheaths that carry plicate, deciduous, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acuminate leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a racemose, arcuate, to 20 [50 cm] long, one-sided inflorescence that arises from the base of an immature growth, carrying up to 30, showy, facing upwards, foul smelling.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/4 inch [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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