Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 54 cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1 (on mature growth)
Leaf Length: 44.5 cm
Leaf Width: 2.0 cm
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: plicate, linear-lanceolate
Leaf Petiole Length: 9.5 cm
Pseudobulb Root Tip: non-visible
Inflorescence Overall Length: up to 102 cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: racemose
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 91 cm
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 1.5 cm
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 2.5 cm
Floral Bracts Length: .5 c,
Floral Bracts Width: .05 cm
Ovary Length: 1.2 (or 0.4) cm
Ovary Width: 0.3 cm
Ovary Shape: tubular
Ovary Color: brown
Ovary Texture: smooth
Flower Natural Spread Length: 4.9 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 3.9 cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 2.3 cm
Dorsal Sepal Width: 1.0 cm
Lateral Sepals Length: 2.2 cm
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.4 cm
Petals Length: 2.6 cm
Petals Width: 2.1 cm
Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20185021
Award Date: August 18, 2018
Awarded As: Bletia catenulata
Five flowers, four buds, and one emerging bud on two upright racemose inflorescences up to 102 cm and a third immature inflorescence; plant, consisting of one mature growth comprised of a 2cm wide by 49.5 cm long plicate, linear-lanceolate, smooth-edged leaf borne on a 9.5 cm petiole and one additional emerging four-leaved new growth, grown in terrestrial mix in a 28 cm clay pot; sepals light magenta, darker magenta veins; petals light magenta, darker magenta on reverse; trilobed lip deep magenta, yellow overlaid dark magenta stripes centrally, five prominent yellow calli, central callus extends to center of deeply cleft midlobe; column magenta; anther cap white spotted black; substance medium; texture crystalline; recognized as a unique terrestrial rare in cultivation; native to Ecuador ; confirmed by SITF
