Finding
SITF confirms this plant as Meiracyllium gemma (Feb 2026). Identification is based on the wingless column, basally sac-like lip, creeping rhizomes and solitary, broad to roundish fleshy, leathery leaves. Good match to most of the photos in Orchid Roots, IOSPE and OW. The POWO shows the plant and unopened flowers.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 6.5 cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1
Leaf Length: 5.0 cm
Leaf Width: 2.4 cm
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: elliptical
Leaf Petiole Length: sessile
Pseudobulb Length: 1.4 cm
Pseudobulb Width: stem 0.1 cm
Pseudobulb Margin: glabrous, visible
Pseudobulb Distance: 0.6
Pseudobulb Root Tip: No new roots
Inflorescence Overall Length: 5.5 cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: raceme
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 1.6 cm
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 0.4 cm
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: about 1.0 cm
Flower Natural Spread Length: 1.4 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.8 cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.4 cm
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.4 cm
Lateral Sepals Length: 1.4 cm
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.4
Petals Width: 0.2 cm
Judging Center: Louisiana Judging Center
Award Number: 20256591
Award Date: November 22, 2025
Awarded As: CBR
Obtained from Bill Bartlett member of Houston Orchid Society. From Jalisco state in Mexico. Description: Eight flowers on three upright apical inflorescences up to 5.5 cm on a 17-growth plant 16.4 cm wide by 9.5 cm tall grown on a 15.0-cm square cork mount; stem glabrous, 0.1 cm wide up to 1.5 cm long; leaf elliptical, sessile, coriaceous; flower base color fuchsia; sepals and petals lanceolate; lip scoop-shaped, white, overlaid and veined fuchsia distally, throat yellow; column light pink, spotted fuchsia, anther cap fuchsia; substance firm; texture waxy; species native to Mexico.
