Finding
SITF has determined that this plant is not awardable at the present time. The name Stereochilus xiaoi was published contrary to Art 39.1 of the ICBN making it invalid until that error is fixed. It is listed as an "Unplaced name". Unplaced names are names that cannot be accepted, nor can they be put into synonymy.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 37 cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: monopodial growth habit
Leaf Length: 13.5 cm
Leaf Width: 1.0 cm
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: laceolate - semiterete
Leaf Petiole Length: 0
Pseudobulb Width: n/a
Pseudobulb Root Tip: green, surface slightly rugose
Inflorescence Overall Length: 8.0 cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: alternate, loose spiral
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 2.2 cm
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 0.8 cm
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 1.3 cm to base of sepals
Floral Bracts Length: 0.05 cm
Floral Bracts Width: 0.1 cm (light brown)
Ovary Length: 1.3 cm
Ovary Width: 0.1 cm
Ovary Shape: cylindrical
Ovary Color: light green
Ovary Texture: smooth
Flower Natural Spread Length: 1.6 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 2.0 cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.3 cm
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.7 cm
Lateral Sepals Length: 0.6
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.3 cm
Judging Center: northeast judging center
Award Number: 20244882
Award Date: August 17, 2024
Awarded As: CHM
Purchased from Hengduan Mountains Biotechnology (Wenqing Perner)Award Description: Nineteen dainty, pleasantly fragrant flowers on two arched 8-cm pendant inflorescences on a 37-cm tall semi-terete leaved branching monopodial plant growing in moss, in a 10 cm plastic mesh basket; sepals and petals white blushed magenta pink; lip saccate, white intensely suffused magenta pink at apex possessing a small 0.2-cm cylindrical spur; column and anther cap white blushed magenta pink; yellow pollinia slightly visible through the translucent anther cap with an acute apex resembling a bird’s head; substance firm; texture crystalline; awarded as charming representative of an uncommonly seen genus of the Aeridinae subtribe.
