Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20194520
Award Date: March 02, 2019
Awarded As: Bulbophyllum tripaleum
Awarded as Bulb. tripaleum, now considered a synonym of Bulb. dhaninivatii. The two concepts are synonymized by Vermuelen who states that the presence or absence of extended sepal paleae is variable and does not represent a character significant enough to separate the concepts. The petals and lip of the two concepts are otherwise indistinguishable.
Thirty-eight fascinating, semi-closed, micro-miniature flowers arranged circumferentially on three pendent rachis borne individually on three upright inflorescences up to 5.5 cm tall which emerge basally from three new, medium green, conical pseudobulbs 1.3 cm wide by 1.7 cm tall of a 6 pseudobulb plant mounted on an irregularly shaped chunk of cork; sepals exterior dark magenta and hirsute, interior dark magenta striped yellow green, each sepal bearing a mobile, hanging, 0.1 cm wide x 0.7 cm long ivory palae heavily barred and stippled dark magenta; minute petals ivory, single linear dark magenta stripe centrally, nearly enclosed by sepals; lip dark magenta; anther cap bright yellow; awarded for proportionate and evocative display between compact rachis and pseudobulbs, as well as unique sepaline features which freely tremble in the breeze and which are the basis for this species specific epithet; native to Thailand; confirmed by SITF
Note - WCSPF has this as synonymous with Bulbophyllum dhaninivatii Seidenf., Felicit. Vol. Southeast Asian Stud. 1: 154 (1965). However, when we searched the latter species the images were nowhere close to what we saw at judging.
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: Currently deciduous
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 1.7
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 1.3
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: ovoid, conical
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: no space
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: yellow root tip, very fine roots 0.1 cm wide
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 5.5 cm (0.1 cm wide), erect
Inflorescence > Arrangement: nodding rachis, buds all around the structure
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 5.5 cm; there are 1 to 2 0.3 cm long sterile bracts on each inflorescence, the inflorescence segments are up to 2.5 cm long
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 0.1 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: non visible
Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.9 cm (including palae, which will be recorded under cauda)
Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.1 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.1 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.1 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Cauda Length: 0.6 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Cauda Width: 0.1 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.1 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.1 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Caudae Length: 0.7 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Caudae Width: 0.1 cm
Flower > Petals Length: 0.1 cm
Flower > Petals Width: 0.05
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 0.2 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.1 cm
Flower > Anther Cap Color: yellow