Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Zootrophion arrondeauanum (Mar 2025). This plant matches the original description, photo and dissection images found in the New World Orchidaceae– Nomenclatural Notes Nomenclatural Note– Issue No. 130, March 14, 2024: "A New Species of Zootrophion Luer (Orchidaceae), Zootrophion arrondeauanum Uribe-Velez & Sauleda. It is also based on the detailed differentiation from other species provided in the description in the IPNI. The plant awarded is same plant that the dissection plate was made from in the original description.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Specklinia pfavii (Mar 2025). This plant agrees with the Pupulin's original description and drawing in The New Refugium Botanicum, Specklinia pfavii. The species is very distinctive with a zigzag inflorescence bearing successive blooming, resupinate flowers.

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be Maxillaria friedrichsthalii, not M. encycliodes (Mar 2025). Maxillaria encyclioides, M. scorpioidea and M. friedrichsthalii are impossible to tell apart when out of flower because of the variability in plant size. According to Eric Christenson, M. encyclioides is a bright yellow flower with an obtuse lip. M. scorpioidea is paler flower with similar lip, but characterized by maroon spots on the lip. M. friedrichsthalii has a plain green flower with lateral sepals held rigidly horizontal, a distinctively pointed lip and a broad platelike crest that does not extend to the middle of the lip. The crests of the other species are narrower and extend to the middle of the lip. All of these features are visible in this flower.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Bulbophyllum vietnamense (Mar 2025). Excellent matching photos of B. vietnamense may be seen at the Vietnamese website: Hoa Lan Vietnam (Vietnamese Orchid Society), Vietnamese Wild Orchids: Bulbophyllum. Excellent match to photos in Orchid Roots and the IOSPE.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Epidendrum microphyllum (Mar 2025). Based on the description and illustration in "Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum" (Bennett & Christenson), with its distinguishing scandent growth habit and its hirsute peduncle, rachis, sepals and ovary. Also matches the illustration in Vol II of Dodson's "Native Ecuadorean Orchids". Another description and excellent photo of Epi. microphyllum matching this plant can be found in the on-line iNaturalist Epidendrum microphyllum. Other supporting photos can be seen in the OW.

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be Oberonia rufilabris, not O. mucronata (Mar 2025). Identified with the aid of Dr. Daniel Geiger. He identified this plant as O. rufilabris. The characters supporting O. rufilabris and not O. mucronata are the changing length of the floral bracts: short at tip of inflorescence, becoming longer towards peduncle and the shorter, broad leaves, which are compatible with O. rufilabris. The Nordic Journal of Botany, "Studies on Oberonia 3. Aberrant flowers and other floral modifications in the orchid genus Oberonia "Volume 36, Issue 1_2 January/February 2018 contains descriptions, photos and comparisons between O. rufilabris and O. mucronata.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Coelogyne gibbosa (Mar 2025). This plant matches the Bakers' description, including the zigzag form of the inflorescence, and an excellent photo of Pholidota (Coelogyne) in the OW. Also there are photos in Orchidroots which support this identification.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Acianthera verecunda (Mar 2025). This plant matches A. verecunda with slender, sturdy, purple stems, and thick red-purple leaves with a few fleshy flowers that has minutely denticulate spatulate petals, and a thick lip with a small pair of erect lobes below the middle. The plant fits the Luer drawing and description of A. verecunda (as Pleurothallis verecunda) in Selbyana, Vol. 3 No. 1/2 (1976), "Miscellaneous Species of Pleurothallis".

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Pleurothallis tragulosa (Feb 2025). This plant is a perfect match to Luer's drawing and description in Lindleyana 11(3). It is an Excellent match to the Pleurothallis tragulosa in the OW and IOSPE. It is also a good match to the photos in the orchidroots.com.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Changnienia amoena (Feb 2025). The petals of the similar C. malipoensis are 1.6 to 1.7 cm and C. amoena petals are 1.2 to 1.4 cm also, the leaf shape is definitely more like C. amoena than C. malipoensis, which has a broadly, almost circular leaf for C. malipoensis compared to the leaf shape of this plant. The original description of C. amoena describes the leaf as 6-11 cm long and 5-8.2 cm wide, which is a better fit to this plant. This plant is a very good match to the photo of C. amoena in the IOSPE.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Coelogyne warrenii (Feb 2025). The long, linear leaves fit C. warrenii, as does the flower form and inflorescence. A description of the synonym Dendrochilum warrenii, which matches this plant, can be found in Lankesteriana, "First wild record of Dendrochilum warrenii (orchidaceae: epidendroideae) confirms a philippine provenance" (https://www.redalyc.org/journal/443/44359783007/html/). Supporting photos of C. warrenii (as the synonym Dendrichilum warrenii) can be found in the IOSPE and the OW.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Ipsea thailandica (Feb 2025). This plant is good match to both the flowers and the pseudobulbs of Ipsea thailandica. It is distinctively different from the other two species in the genus, I. malabarica and I. speciosa. It is an excellent match to the David Jubineau photos in the IOSPE.

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be Bulbophyllum alticola, not Bulbophyllum longilabre (Mar 2025). Based on flower morphology and the form of the pseudobulbs, this plant is a match for B. alticola. These pseudobulbs are more conical than is B. longilabre and the lip has only two discernible keels, rather than three. The photos of B. alticola in the POWO and IOSPE are a close match to this plant.