Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20185202
Award Date: March 03, 2018
Awarded As: Coelogyne taronensis
Two charming, pleasingly colored, stellate flowers and one bud alternately arranged on on erect 8.0 cm inflorescence; 1 cm diameter by 2 cm tall conoidal pseudobulbs bear two stiff, strongly veined, 2.3 cm wide by 11.0 cm long entire lanceolate leaves; sepals and petals yellow, faintly veined red, venation more pronounced on sepals, dorsal sepal curved forward over column; lip cream, central lobe bisected by a single brown vein, two serpentine white keels on either side of vein, margin crisped; side lobes heavily striped chestnut brown, coalescing to a chestnut brown eye at margin, stripes visible internally and externally; column cream suffused green, distinct brown striations apically and on reverse; anther cap yellow green; substance medium; texture crystalline; recognized for beautiful flowers proportional to compact plant habit; native to China (Yunnan); confirmed by SITF
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 13.5 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 1
Plant > Leaf Length: 11.0 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 2.3 cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: ovate to broadly lanceolate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 2.0 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 1.0 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: conoidal
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: 0.0 cm
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: olive green
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 8.0 cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: alternating
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 2.0 cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 1.5 cm - 3.5 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 2.0 cm pedicel
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 2.0 cm pedicel
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: 2.8 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Width: 0.5 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 0.5 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.2 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: curved
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: dark green
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: ribbed
Flower Natural Spread Length: 4.7 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 4.5 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.3 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 3.2 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.5 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 2.7 cm
Flower > Petals Length: 1.0 cm
Flower > Petals Width: 3.2 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 1.2 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 2.5 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): strongly keeled, slightly fimbriate at margin
Flower > Column Length: 1.8 cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.6 cm
Flower > Column Color: white, green suffusion
Flower > Anther Cap Color: yellow-green