This plant has enough similar features to be considered Phal. cf. lueddemanniana (cf. a Latin abbrev. to describe a specimen that is like or similar to a taxon, but with a degree of uncertainty); however, there are some features which also suggest it could be an intergrade hybrid. For example, the lip should not be spade/trowel-shaped, but rounded and flat, not folded in the center; the widening of the thickened patch at the end of the lip midlobe could possibly be from a different species. This plant does show the trichomes on the apical area and the dense papillae on the posterior callus. Also, Christenson states, this species, even after the exclusion of several former species, is still variable.