Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20214871
Award Date: June 19, 2021
Awarded As: Stelis acaroi 'Timothy Henry' CBR/AOS
Thirty-one flowers and 36 buds on eight erect, gently arched inflorescences, and two additional immature inflorescences, displayed on a very clean plant measuring 22 cm wide by 23 cm tall grown in bark mix in a 9 cm clay pot; leaves lanceolate, entire, 2.5 cm wide by 11 cm long; sepals yellow chartreuse heavily overlaid deep mahogany basally and centrally, dorsal sepal slightly hooded and recurved along lateral margins; petals mahogany, crescent-shaped; lip dark mahogany, incurved along distal edge; substance medium; texture matte; native to Ecuador
Grower's note: Inflorescences emerge from leaf base. One inflorescence per leaf. Pedicles sheathed basally. Sheaths brown, no markings.
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 22.5 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 1
Plant > Leaf Length: 11.5 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 3.0 cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: oblanceolate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 13.5 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 0.3 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: round
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: 0.4 cm
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 17 cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: spike, alternating
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 4.0 cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 0.5 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.1 cm to base of ovary
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.1 cm to base of ovary
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 0.3 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.1
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: cylinder
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: beige
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: ribbed
Flower Natural Spread Length: 1.0
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.0
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.4
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.3
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.4
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.3
Flower > Petals Length: 0.05
Flower > Petals Width: 0.1
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 0.05
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.1
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): Margin of lip appears somewhat ragged in closeup
Flower > Column Length: 0.1 cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.05
Flower > Column Color: yellow-orange