Mormodes

Lindley , Inrod .Nat. Syst. , ed . 2 .(1836) , 446 .

Cataseteae . II, III. Gr. Mormo (phantom ; bugbear ; frightful object ), eides (resembling ). Referring to the strange apperance of the flowers, which represent " the most astonishing deviations from ordinary structure and the most startling variations from what appears to be the rule in other parts of the organic world".