Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20194306
Award Date: February 16, 2019
Awarded As: Dendrobium kruiense
Twenty-five delicately colored stellate flowers featuring a 0.3 cm wide by 1.5 cm long blunt ended nectary and 47 buds on 22 panicle inflorescences on 11 deciduous canes; robust 70 cm wide by 120 cm tall by 60 cm deep plant features 24 deciduous canes and 6 leafed canes grows on sphagnum moss pad on a tree fern mount; leafed canes smooth, 0.5 cm in diameter and up to 53 cm long, bear six or more 3.0 cm wide by 20 cm long lanceolate leaves spaced 2.5 - 3.0 cm apart; light pink upright dorsal and slightly back-swept white lateral sepals yellow basally, darker pink longitudinal striation; petals white, light pink apically, yellow basally, darker pink central line; cleft lip white, light pink apically, yellow basally, two central longitudinal keels on either side of darker pink central line; nectary enclosed by a mentum; substance tissue; texture crystalline; native to Sumatra; confirmed by SITF
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 11 - 53 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 6 +
Plant > Leaf Length: 20 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 3 cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: lanceolate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 11 - 53 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 1.0 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: smooth
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: contiguous
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: non-visible
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 5 cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: panicle
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 2.0 cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 0.5 - 1.0 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 0.6 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.1 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: ovate
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: light green, pink striations
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: ridged
Flower Natural Spread Length: 3.0 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 3.0 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.5 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.5 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 1.5 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.8 cm
Flower > Petals Length: 1.7 cm
Flower > Petals Width: 0.7 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 1.5 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.8 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): 0.2 x 1.5 cm nectary enclosed by mentum; lip cleft, margin finely toothed, two raised areas longitudinally in center (not quite calli)
Flower > Column Length: 0.3 cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.3 cm
Flower > Column Color: yellow
Flower > Anther Cap Color: cream white