Judging Center: FNCJC
Award Number: 20172293
Award Date: May 24, 2017
Awarded As: Encyclia yauaperyensis
Description of Award: Four flowers on one erect, terminal, red-brown, 33-cm inflorescence, arising from a sheathed pseudobulb with two slender 33-cm long by 1.5-cm wide leaves; four mature, leafless, slightly wrinkled pseudobulbs up to 3cm wide by 5cm tall, plus one emerging growth; grown in a 7-cm, plastic net pot, inside an 8-cm wide, tall plastic pot in bark mix; flowers broadly stellate; sepals and petals spatulate, light green, softly blushed red-mahogany, suffused deeper apically; lip trilobed, side lobes porrect, light green, flared apically, midlobe round, white, margins ruffled; column light green, anther cap white, apically red-purple; substance firm; texture matte; species from South America; awarded for rarity in cultivation, pleasing shape and color; species similar to Encyclia tampensis; plant judged as Encyclia yauaperyensis.
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 2
Plant > Leaf Length: 33cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 1.5cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 5cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 3cm
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 33cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: terminal
Flower Natural Spread Length: 3.7
Flower Natural Spread Width: 3.7
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: .7
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 2.2
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: .7
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 2.2
Flower > Petals Length: .6
Flower > Petals Width: 1.9
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 1.8
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 2.2
Flower > Column Color: light green
Flower > Anther Cap Color: white