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Phalaenopsis kunstleri Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 30 (1890).This name is accepted.

Distribution: Myanmar to Pen. Malaysia

Cincinnati Judging Center - award 20123485

I am requesting
identification of the attached plant which was awarded as Phal. kunstleri – I
am attaching photos taken by the center’s photographer and by the plant’s
owner, and the award slip.

Information from the
team on why it distinguished this plant from Phal. fuscata: The
definitive characteristics separating P kunstleri from P fuscata are minimal.
The defining traits are a short , bulbous versus cylindrical column, and fleshy
ridges on the disc between the lip lateral lobes. Fuscata does not have these
fleshy ridges. Drawings in The Genus Phalaenopsis, Sweet (1980) pages
68-69 clearly show the difference. The attached pictures (taken by the owner)
show the ridges and column of the awarded kunstleri after he removed the lip
lateral lobes.

Thank you for your
assistance.

Janice Yates

Chair

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