Paphiopedilum

Finding

SITF has determined this plant to be of indeterminate hybrid origin, not Papiopedilum ooii (May 2025). This plant is not P. ooii, which has a smaller somewhat awkward looking flower. Harold Koopowitz's response was that it is a hybrid of P. ooii and any one of the polyfloral species. The dorsal sepal of P. ooii never stands upright, but folds over the pouch, the petals are always ribbon-thin, the pouch always looks like the pouch on P. kolopakingii, the staminode is always bone white (distinguishing it from a poor P. kolopKingii) and the inflorescence is too short and too well arranged to be P. ooii.

Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 60

Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 6-8

Leaf Length: 38cm

Leaf Width: 5.6 cm

Leaf Margin: entire

Leaf Shape: elongated ellipse

Inflorescence Overall Length: 57cm

Inflorescence Arrangement: raceme

Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 25cm

Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: up to 11cm

Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 8cm

Floral Bracts Length: 8.2

Floral Bracts Width: 4 cm

Ovary Length: 6.4

Ovary Width: 0.7

Ovary Shape: cylindrical

Ovary Color: maroon

Ovary Texture: linearly pubescent

Flower Natural Spread Length: 15.4

Flower Natural Spread Width: 9.0

Dorsal Sepal Length: 4.6

Dorsal Sepal Width: 3.3

Lateral Sepals Length: 4.5

Lateral Sepals Width: 3.2

Petals Width: 1.0

Judging Center: Florida North Centra

Award Number: 20251388

Award Date: May 10, 2025

Awarded As: CHM

Three open flowers and three buds on one red-mahogany, hirsute, rigidly erect inflorescence; floral bracts lanceolate, green, striped red-mahogany coalesced basally; ovary red-mahogany, very fine pubescence arranged in rows; sepals ovate, light green, linearly striped red-mahogany, synsepal fainter; petals linear, proximally light green, overlaid darker green, spotted mahogany, lightly veined mahogany, margins crisply undulate, hispid, distally coalesced red mahogany, slightly twisted, apices green; pouch rothschildianum-shaped, vertical surfaces slightly rippled, lightly green, blushed and veined light mahogany; fat, knee-shaped staminode chartreuse, veined green, margin hair in two rows, red-mahogany, semicircular notch at apex; substance moderately firm; texture glossy, sepals satiny.

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