Finding
SITF confirms this plant as Porpax extinctoria (Apr 2025). This plant is a good match to the plant identified by Pedersen in 2023: https://sitf.aos.org/sitf-blog/porpax-extinctoria-2023-07-17. The photos and description of the pseudobulbs are a good match. The photos show tufts of orange-red hairs on the lip which match this flower. The form of the flower also matches.
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 0
Pseudobulb Distance: tightly clustered
Inflorescence Overall Length: 8.5cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: single flowered
Ovary Length: 1.5cm
Ovary Width: 0.2cm
Ovary Color: dark green with longitudinal ribs light green
Ovary Texture: ribbed
Flower Natural Spread Length: 1.5cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.0cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.7cm
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.3cm
Lateral Sepals Length: 1.1cm
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.4cm
Petals Width: 0.2cm
Judging Center: Mid America
Award Number: 20254267
Award Date: March 15, 2025
Awarded As: CHM
Four flowers and two buds terminally arranged on six erect, single flowered inflorescences to 8.5cm; plant 3.0cm wide x 4.0cm tall x 0.7cm deep, growing on a 4.2cm wide x 10.7cm tall cholla mount; inflorescences emerge from six of 14 clumping, globose, flattened, depressed on top, wrinkled, leafless pseudobulbs; flower white; lateral sepals fused basally forming nectary which is faint yellow, sepal apices acuminate; petals porrect and reflexed at apex; lip bilobed, pale yellow spot centrally, blushed light purple on distal margin of yellow spot, three hirsute orange keels, center keel is shorter, margins erose, side lobes whites, curve around column, margins entire; column white, 0.2cm wide x 0.3cm long, column foot bright yellow, anther cap pink; ovary 0.2cm wide x 1.5 cm long, dark green with longitudinally ribs light green; substance medium; texture crystalline; species native to Nepal and Myanmar; commended for improvement from previously awarded species; ID by SITF _______________________.Plant came from Andy's Orchids.
