Award number: 20165818 pnw

Name:  Sudamerlycaste (Ida) rikii ‘Eleonora’ CHM/AOS

Parents: species

Description:

Eight nodding, pale apple green flowers and two buds on 10 inflorescences, up to 29 cm long; sepals suffused apple green on distal two-thirds; dorsal sepal porrect, lateral sepal sickle shaped, mentum pale apple green, petals cupped; lip midlobe fimbriated , deep apple green centrally, crest concave, five keels proximally, side lobes deep apple green; column cream; substance heavy, texture waxy.

Note: There is a prior award # 2009-5063 for Ida rikii CHM/AOS where the flowers are described as ivory, sepals and petals flushed palest ice green on distal two-thirds, lip flushed yellow centrally.  The color is distinctly different between these two plants.