Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 124.0 cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 27.0 cm on longest growth
Leaf Length: 25.5 cm
Leaf Width: 0.6 cm
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: linear - terete
Leaf Petiole Length: N/A
Pseudobulb Length: up to 124.0 cm
Pseudobulb Width: 0.8 cm
Pseudobulb Margin: Monopodal
Pseudobulb Distance: 0.4 cm
Pseudobulb Root Tip: N/A
Inflorescence Overall Length: 1.1 cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: raceme
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 0.2 cm
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 0.05 cm
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 1.0 cm
Floral Bracts Length: 0.2 cm
Floral Bracts Width: 0.1 cm
Ovary Length: 0.6 cm
Ovary Width: 0.15 cm
Ovary Shape: slightly tapered cylender
Ovary Color: blue-cream
Ovary Texture: crystaline
Flower Natural Spread Length: 1.45 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.65 cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.3 cm
Lateral Sepals Length: 0.5 cm
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.3
Petals Width: 0.2
Judging Center: Pacific South - San Marino
Award Number: 20255865
Award Date: August 09, 2025
Awarded As: -1
Andy's OrchidsI have included images (#23 - #29) from a division of a plant from New York Botanical Garden that was used for the description of the type plant for the species.Description:20255865 Cleisocentrum merrillianum ‘The Huntington's Alicia Baugh’ HCC/AOS 78 pts.Forty-six flowers on two very compact, 1.1-cm racemes; plant 58.0 cm wide by 132.0 cm long, mounted on a 28.0-cm x 58.0 cm Cork Oak bark slab; leaves terete, 0.6 cm wide by up to 27.0 cm; growths monopodal, four growths from 3.8 cm to 124.0 cm long, tightly spaced; sepals and petals cream suffused pale blue, bright violet- blue margins, sepals obelliptic, petals spathulate; lip cream, suffused light blue, sidelobe apexes dark violet-blue, midlobe saccate, overlaid violet, margin dentate, violet-blue, spur cream suffused faint violet, very dark violet-blue stripe under column base, 0.2 cm x 1.1 cm; column cream; substance firm; texture heavily crystalline.
