Finding
SITF confirms this plant as Gastrochilus minutiflorus (Aug 2024). G. minutiflorus is similar to G. acinacifolius; however, G. acinacifolius has two short bristlelike appendages (awn) like two lobes that look like needles on the very tips of the leaves. This plant does not show that characteristic. G. minutiflorus is only about 1.0-cm wide. Both G. minutiflorus and G. acinacifolius are very similar in color and markings, but with the smaller flower size (1.0 cm N.S.) of this flower and the difference in the leaves, this is most like G. minutiflorus.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 11.0
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 6
Leaf Length: 7.0
Leaf Width: 2.0
Leaf Margin: smooth
Leaf Shape: falcate
Inflorescence Overall Length: 2.0
Ovary Length: 0.5cm
Ovary Width: 0.1
Ovary Shape: terete
Ovary Color: light green with plum red speckling longitudinally
Ovary Texture: smooth
Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.7
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.0cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.45
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.25
Lateral Sepals Length: 0.45
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.25
Petals Length: 0.35
Petals Width: 0.15
Judging Center: Great Plains Judging Center
Award Number: 20243563
Award Date: March 16, 2024
Awarded As: -1
Nine flowers on 2 inflorescences to 2.0 cm long, inflorescences pendant , arising from base of mature leaf sheaths; plant pendant, 12.0 cm wide x 11.0 cm long, grown on a 7.5 cm wide x 9.6 cm long cedar shingle with sphagnum moss; stem repent, 0.5 cm wide; largest leaf 2cm wide x 7cm long, falcate, leathery, green spotted purple-violet with leathery sheath encircling stem, sheaths to 0.5 cm wide x 1.3 cm long; roots 0.2 cm wide, surface of root velamen warty, root tips lime green; small flowers generally translucent green overlaid yellow with plum red speckling; dorsal sepal obovate; petals obovate, acuminate; lateral sepals oblanceolate; lip epichile triangular, white overlaid bright yellow centrally, with faint plum red marking showing through from abaxial surface, margin erose, hypochile saccate, white overlaid bright yellow with faint plum red speckling on basal interior of pouch and abaxial surface, margins entire, plum red; column stout, light yellow overlaid light plum red speckling; anther cap translucent pale yellow; ovary terete, light green, plum red speckling longitudinally, 0.1 cm wide x 0.5 cm long; substance firm, texture beaded; fragrance noted; species native to Vietnam and Yunnan province of China; ID by SITF ___________________.Plant came from Wenqing Perner in China
