Finding
SITF confirms this plant as Diploprora championii (Jul 2026). There are only two species in this Genus: championii and truncata. The two species are very different in form and color. This plant is an exact match to D. championii as can be seen in the images in the OW and the orchidroots.com.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 13.3cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: Multiple
Leaf Length: 6.5cm
Leaf Width: 2.5cm
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: lanceolate
Pseudobulb Root Tip: Green
Inflorescence Overall Length: 10.8cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: sequential blooming
Ovary Shape: terete
Ovary Color: pale yellow
Ovary Texture: ribbed longitudinally
Flower Natural Spread Length: 2.0
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.8
Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.1
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.5
Lateral Sepals Length: 0.8
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.5
Petals Width: 0.4
Judging Center: Great Plains Juding Center
Award Number: 20263235
Award Date: June 20, 2026
Awarded As: HCC
Four sequential blooming flowers and two buds on two pendent inflorescences, longest 10.8cm, plant monopodial, 8.5cm wide x 13.3cm tall growing on a piece of wood 6.0cm wide x 25.0cm tall with a pad of sphagnum moss, largest leaf lanceolate, basally clasping, apex attenuate, margins entire, medium green, 2.5cm wide x 6.5cm long, roots tortuous, white, root tips green, distance between leaves 1.1cm; sepals and petals lanceolate, apex obtuse, margins entire, light yellow; petals slightly reflexed; lip vertical, concave, white with vertical brown venation, apex elongated bifurcation, 0.1cm wide x 0.4 cm long; column white, 0.3cm wide x 0.3cm long, anther cap white, substance heavy; texture crystalline; species native to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Eastern Himalayas, Assam, Sri Lankha, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam; ID by SIFT on ________________. Plant came from Hengduan Mt Biotech Ltd in China
