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Originally Posted by Bud
Bright colored lovely flowers.... you are right; IOSPE and AOS presented pictures of flowers with striped petals, dotted lip and some fuzz on the edges of the flower. Totally different from what you have=but maybe after several flowering cycle you might get the same as their picture since what I saw were male flowers and yours are female.
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Mormodes warscewiczii 'Brent Baker' and Mormodes warscewiczii 'Sunset Valley Orchids' look exactly the same as the AOS and IOSPE photos....striped petals, dotted lip with fuzz.
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For years I have tried to find more information about the flower dimorphism in Mormodes. Among the very few species with proven dimorphism are revoluta and warscewiczii. Some people even huddle together these two species, which I prefer to keep separate. I have personally seen and documented this dimorphism in one and the same flower stem years ago. But I have no prove if this morphologic dimorphism is effective as sexual dimorphism, which is known in the genera Catasetum and Cycnoches. It seems that Mormodes stands at the border to develop sexual dimorphism on a way of their own, combined with the mechanism of twisting the column. They are truely weird spooks.
If you want to read on: The very sophisticated G.F. Carr is one of the few persons who knows and mentions this dimorphism:
Catasetinae: INTRODUCTION TO THE CATASETINAE
Jenny has a picture at SOF
https://orchid.unibas.ch/phpMyHerbar...n/specimen.php
Here is another picture with flower dimorphism (also I think this and Jenny's are revoluta), that I found when searching the net:
Mormodes species
Linear Mode
