SITF Submissions and Findings

This plant matches the description in the IOSPE with thin, falcate leaves that are minutely serrulate, seen under magnification. The plant falls within the range of variability for this species. The flowers measure about 1.3 cm which matches in the OW the Baker's description of Tolu. leiboldii, which is synonymous with T. variegata. There are closely matching images in the OW, IOSPE and the orchidroots.com show show the variability of this species.

This plant matches photos of the leaf color and form, flower form and color, and the inflorescences in the IOSPE, OW and orchidroots; with its basal rosette, variegated leaf, inflorescence with spiraling flower placement, flower size, form and color and distinctive white lip, this plant matches C. lindleyanus.

Closely matches albescence color forms in orchidroots.com; matches Baker's description of D. emarginata in the OW; matches the line drawing Tab. 117, "Hoehne's Iconografia de Orchidaceae do Brasil" (1949); typo color of D. emarginata is pink; this plant is a pale albescence color form.

The key difference between Z. lappaceum and Z. hypodiscus is in the ratio of the width to length of the flower. Z. lappaceum is wider than it is long and Z. hypodiscus is longer than it is wide. This plant as seen in the photos is longer than wide, favoring Z. hypodiscus. The opening (window) of Z. hypodiscus is up to half the length of the flower and Z. lappaceum is less than half. The window on this flower appears to be almost exactly half the length, which also favors Z. hypodiscus. This plant matches the Key found in "Icones Pleurothallidinarum" and the drawing of Z. hypodiscus in the Systemics of Zootrophion.

The key characteristics are the strap-like posterior horns that extend out and then sharply turn down and are rounded at the ends, the extra hump just forward of those, the long horns, the pronounced hump just in front of them and the upturned apex of the epichile; supporting matching photos can be found in the OW, orchidroots.com and the IOSPE.

This plant matches the description and photos in Eric Christenson's Monograph on Maxillaria and the drawing by Dodson in the IOSPE; M. estradae is separated from other species, especially M. acervata, by bifilaire pseudobulbs subtended by foliaceous bracts and a conspicuously globose callus apex; M. acervata also does not have stripes, as does the sepals and petals of this plant and M. estradae; matches photos in the IOSPE and orchidroots.

This plant matches the characteristics of Maxillaria curtipes, including the ascendant growth, narrow, laterally compressed pseudobulbs, and lateral sepals held widespread at near a 180-degree angle to each other; matches the description and photos in Eric Christenson's Unfinished Monograph and the photos from Andy's Orchids and the OW.

This plant is an excellent match to the description of Maxillaria aurea in Eric Christenson's unfinished Monograph on Maxillaria; matches the photo of M. aurea in Kew's Plants of the World On-line (POWO); key characteristics include the narrow and acute leaves. A major defining difference between this species and M. cordyline (Aka M. gigantea), a species often confused with M. aurea, is the apices of the petals, which are clawed in M. aurea (as described in the IOSPE). Note: No lectotype was selected, although there appears to be two of the type collection that may be different species in Eric's book.

Over many years there has been a series of mistaken identities which mixed up Coelogyne mossiae with several other species. Based on the description and photo in an article in Researchgate, "The True Coelogyne mossiae" by Schuiteman and Perry, this plant does not match the true C. mossiae. C. mossiae should have relatively short, broad leaves; Christenson pointed out in 2008, plants of the hybrid C. Unchained Melody (C. cristata x C. flaccida) were often mistakenly labeled as C. mossiae or C. grandulosa. According to the Schuiteman-Perry article, this hybrid has much larger, floppier flowers than C. mossiae with three deeply fringed keels on the lip. C. mossiae plants grow in a near alpine environment as stunted, hard plants with broad, petiolate, rather sharply pointed leaves. The photo in the IOSPE matches the true C. mossiae, which may be relatively rare in cultivation.