Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Specklinia pfavii (Mar 2025). This plant agrees with the Pupulin's original description and drawing in The New Refugium Botanicum, Specklinia pfavii. The species is very distinctive with a zigzag inflorescence bearing successive blooming, resupinate flowers.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Bulbophyllum vietnamense (Mar 2025). Excellent matching photos of B. vietnamense may be seen at the Vietnamese website: Hoa Lan Vietnam (Vietnamese Orchid Society), Vietnamese Wild Orchids: Bulbophyllum. Excellent match to photos in Orchid Roots and the IOSPE.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Epidendrum microphyllum (Mar 2025). Based on the description and illustration in "Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum" (Bennett & Christenson), with its distinguishing scandent growth habit and its hirsute peduncle, rachis, sepals and ovary. Also matches the illustration in Vol II of Dodson's "Native Ecuadorean Orchids". Another description and excellent photo of Epi. microphyllum matching this plant can be found in the on-line iNaturalist Epidendrum microphyllum. Other supporting photos can be seen in the OW.

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be Oberonia rufilabris, not O. mucronata (Mar 2025). Identified with the aid of Dr. Daniel Geiger. He identified this plant as O. rufilabris. The characters supporting O. rufilabris and not O. mucronata are the changing length of the floral bracts: short at tip of inflorescence, becoming longer towards peduncle and the shorter, broad leaves, which are compatible with O. rufilabris. The Nordic Journal of Botany, "Studies on Oberonia 3. Aberrant flowers and other floral modifications in the orchid genus Oberonia "Volume 36, Issue 1_2 January/February 2018 contains descriptions, photos and comparisons between O. rufilabris and O. mucronata.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Coelogyne gibbosa (Mar 2025). This plant matches the Bakers' description, including the zigzag form of the inflorescence, and an excellent photo of Pholidota (Coelogyne) in the OW. Also there are photos in Orchidroots which support this identification.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Acianthera verecunda (Mar 2025). This plant matches A. verecunda with slender, sturdy, purple stems, and thick red-purple leaves with a few fleshy flowers that has minutely denticulate spatulate petals, and a thick lip with a small pair of erect lobes below the middle. The plant fits the Luer drawing and description of A. verecunda (as Pleurothallis verecunda) in Selbyana, Vol. 3 No. 1/2 (1976), "Miscellaneous Species of Pleurothallis".

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Pleurothallis tragulosa (Feb 2025). This plant is a perfect match to Luer's drawing and description in Lindleyana 11(3). It is an Excellent match to the Pleurothallis tragulosa in the OW and IOSPE. It is also a good match to the photos in the orchidroots.com.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Changnienia amoena (Feb 2025). The petals of the similar C. malipoensis are 1.6 to 1.7 cm and C. amoena petals are 1.2 to 1.4 cm also, the leaf shape is definitely more like C. amoena than C. malipoensis, which has a broadly, almost circular leaf for C. malipoensis compared to the leaf shape of this plant. The original description of C. amoena describes the leaf as 6-11 cm long and 5-8.2 cm wide, which is a better fit to this plant. This plant is a very good match to the photo of C. amoena in the IOSPE.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Coelogyne warrenii (Feb 2025). The long, linear leaves fit C. warrenii, as does the flower form and inflorescence. A description of the synonym Dendrochilum warrenii, which matches this plant, can be found in Lankesteriana, "First wild record of Dendrochilum warrenii (orchidaceae: epidendroideae) confirms a philippine provenance" (https://www.redalyc.org/journal/443/44359783007/html/). Supporting photos of C. warrenii (as the synonym Dendrichilum warrenii) can be found in the IOSPE and the OW.

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Ipsea thailandica (Feb 2025). This plant is good match to both the flowers and the pseudobulbs of Ipsea thailandica. It is distinctively different from the other two species in the genus, I. malabarica and I. speciosa. It is an excellent match to the David Jubineau photos in the IOSPE.

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be Bulbophyllum alticola, not Bulbophyllum longilabre (Mar 2025). Based on flower morphology and the form of the pseudobulbs, this plant is a match for B. alticola. These pseudobulbs are more conical than is B. longilabre and the lip has only two discernible keels, rather than three. The photos of B. alticola in the POWO and IOSPE are a close match to this plant.

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.

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be Cymbidium tracyanum, not Cymbidium iridiodes (Jan 2025). The flowers of C. iridioides are typically no more than 10cm, while those of C. tracyanum can reach 15cm. The flowers on this plant are 12cm.This is a match to the photograph of C. tracyanum in DuPuy & Cribb. The distinctly falcate petals, very large midlobe and the long hairs on the margins of the lip side lobes are all tracyanum characters. The flower size is also a better fit to tracyanum. The lip form, especially the side lobes, and the dorsal hooded over the column agree more with C. tracyanum than C. iridiodes. This plant is also a good match to the Baker and Baker description of C. tracyanum in the OW.

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be Angraecum bancoense, not A. aparoides (Jan 2025). There are four taxa in this section; three of them are distinguished most easily on the length of their spurs. The measurements of this plant have the ovary at 0.3 cm long, which makes the spur (as seen in one of the photos) to be no more than .15-.2 cm. Angraecum aporoides has the longest spur of all of the species at 0.7cm and an ovary 0.7-0.8cm. Angraecum bancoense has an ovary 0.5-0.6cm long and a spur of .25-.5cm. Angraecum distichum ovary 0.5-0.6 and spur 0.5-0.6cm. Angraecum podochiloides spur is .45-.6cm. The spur shape of A. aporoides is straight, narrowly cylindrical with a wide mouth. A. bancoense's spur is straight, suddenly tapering near the end to a short tubular apex. A. distichum's spur is straight or slightly upcurved, suddenly tapering near the end to an acute apex. A. podochiloides's spur is straight, narrowly funnel-shaped, suddenly tapering near the end to an acute apex. Plant size of aporoides is 40cm; A. bancoense is about 15cm; A. distichum is 25 cm; and A. podochiloides is 60cm. Based on the length of the spur (less than 2cm), plant size (17cm), spur shape, and matching Floral dimensions, Angraecum bancoense Van Der Burg is the best fit. It is described as "very similar to distichum, but smaller in all respects and differs in the details of the lateral sepals, lip and spur."

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Macradenia tridentata (Jan 2025). An excellent matching photo of Macradenia tridentata by Alex Hirtz can be found in the IOSPE. Confirmation is based on the size of the plant and the lip form which matches the original description and line drawing in the July issue of 1945 Bulletin.