Finding
SITF confirms this plant as Anoectochilus reinwardtii (Feb 2025). This plant matches Anoectochilus reinwardtii in Eric Christenson's Key to the more common species of Anoectochilus. Two similar species of Anoectochilus, A. reinwardtii and A. albolineatus, are separated by the length of the lacinia. In A. albolineatus, the lacinia are the same length all along the lip claw and in A. reinwardtii, they get longer the farther from the column and the last pair nearest the column are reduced to little toothlike structures as in this plant. Also, The fringing of the lip is more extensive in A. reinwardtii than that in A. roxburghii and the color of the leaf veining is correct for this plant.
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: Muiltiple
Leaf Length: 3.7
Leaf Width: 5.0
Leaf Margin: entire
Inflorescence Overall Length: 17.5
Ovary Length: 1.5
Ovary Width: 0.3
Ovary Shape: terete
Ovary Color: chartreuse
Ovary Texture: ridged longitudinally, twisted
Flower Natural Spread Length: 2.5
Flower Natural Spread Width: 3.1
Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.4
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.6
Lateral Sepals Length: 1.2
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.5
Petals Width: 0.6
Judging Center: Great Plains Judging Center
Award Number: 20253557
Award Date: January 18, 2025
Awarded As: CBR
Six flowers borne on one upright glandular-pubescent inflorescence to 17.5-cm; leaves velvety, dark black-green with various red, pink or yellow reticulation, to 5.0 cm x 3.7 cm; inflorescence bracts triangular-ovate, 3-veined, glandular-pubescent on the dorsal side; flowers subsessile, mainly reddish-brown to greenish-white with white petals and labellum; sepals covered with mainly glandular hairs on the dorsal side; dorsal sepal broadly lanceolate; lateral sepals obliquely oblanceolate-oblong; petals obliquely linear-oblanceolate; lip mesochile with a pair of pectinate flanges; epichile lobules to 1.1 cm long; spur pointing backwards (parallel to the ovary), describing an obtuse angle to the mesochile, cylindric, emarginate, 0.25 cm wide x 0.7 cm long, distal half protruding below the bases of the lateral sepals; column porrect, 0.4 cm wide x 1.0 cm long; wings on the front moderately prolonged, reaching approximately half-way down the spur; anther cap 0.7 cm long, white with yellow central marking overlaid with brown Y shaped marking; ovary 0.3 cm wide x 1.5 cm long, chartreuse, ridged longitudinally, twisted; substance firm, lateral sepals medium; texture waxy, interior of sepals crystalline; species native to Borneo, Java, Moluccas and Sumatra; ID by SITF ______________________.
