Finding
SITF confirms this plant as Ornithocephalus myrticola (Sep 2025). It is an excellent match to photos in Lavarack and Harris' Botanica (pg 409), Aldrich & Higgins compendium (pg 351) and McQueens' Miniature Orchids (pg 141). It is an excellent match to a distinctive species. Supporting photos an be found in the OW, IOSPE and orchidroots.com.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 9 cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 11 per fan
Leaf Length: 7 cm
Leaf Width: 0.8 cm
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: falcate, forming a fan, equitant
Leaf Petiole Length: 1 cm
Pseudobulb Distance: adjacent at base
Pseudobulb Root Tip: green
Inflorescence Overall Length: 5.5 cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: alternate, racem
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: from 0.6 to 1.3 cm
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 0.3 cm
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 0.4 cm to base of sepals, ovary is hard to see under trichomes
Floral Bracts Length: 0,3 cm
Floral Bracts Width: 0.3
Ovary Length: 0.4 cm
Ovary Width: 0.1 cm
Ovary Shape: cylindrical
Ovary Color: green
Ovary Texture: canescent or hirsute?
Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.6 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.6 cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.2
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.2
Lateral Sepals Length: 0.3 cm
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.2 cm
Petals Width: 0.4
Judging Center: northeast
Award Number: 20254883
Award Date: August 16, 2025
Awarded As: CHM
Description:Thirty-three flowers and 64 buds nicely arranged on 13 lateral to erect hirsute inflorescences to 7.0cm growing on a 16.0-cm wide by 15.0-cm long caespitose, ?? fan-like growth plant cultivated on a 7.0-cm rectangular tree fern totem; leaves falcate to 0.8-cm wide by 7-cm long, margins entire; sepals and petals white, margins lacerate; sepals lanceolate, central stripe grass green; petals obovate, veined grass green; lip linguiform, reflexed, acute, white, overlaid dark golden yellow basally, midlobe suffused light chartreuse, striped grass green, crests golden yellow; column white; anther cap golden yellow, veined grass green, spur golden yellow; substance firm; texture crystalline.Vendor:J&L Orchids, who in turn bought parental stock from Floralia in Brasil.Other Comments:petals and sepals ciliate at margin; 4 pollinea in 2x2 pattern; 1 mm from base of column to pollinea, 2mm to tip of column for "bird beak"; anther cap is 2mm long, 1mm wide, stipe is 2mm long, attached to tip of column; whole flower is 0.6 cm deep from tip of ventral sepals to tip of column
