SITF Submissions and Findings

Cattleya-lawrenceana-f-albescens-2023-05-02 *SITF confirms this plant as Cattleya lawrenceana (May 2023).

Posted on May 2, 2023

Plant was awarded as f. albescens but there are no previous awards to this form.

Cattleya-nevesiana-2022-09-30

Posted on Sep 30, 2022

Fusiform pseudobulbs are 5 cm long x 1 cm diameter. Unifoliate caniculate leaves are 7 cm long x 1.5 cm wide. 9 tightly clustered pseudobulbs with short rhizomes in a 7 cm square plastic pot.

Cattleya-violacea-f-alba-2022-08-29***SITF confirmed this plant is Cattleya violacea f. alba (Aug 2022);

C. violacea has been known to have up to seven flowers on an inflorescence grown on a vigorous plant; this is a colchicine treated plant and could easily have five flowers on one inflorescence; this plant has all the key attributes of C. violacea; it is clearly a Cattleya violacea; forma alba is also a validly published form of C. violacea.***

Posted on Aug 29, 2022

One of the judges on the team, questioned this as a true species since there were five flowers. This plant is a selfing of a plant off of a tree belonging to Ursula Ploch in Venezuela, and was colchic...

Cattleya-liliputana-2022-08-29 *SITF confirmed this plant as Cattleya liliputana (Nov 2022); the form, color and flower size match the description of C. liliputana; C. liliputana is usually one to rarely three flowered; key characteristics are in the lip with a bright egg-yolk yellow disc, porrect side lobes and midlobe recurved with rose colored margins.*

Posted on Aug 29, 2022

No SITF form completed at judging. See award form for flower measurements. Exhibitor will upload plant photos/measurements at later time. Please contact exhibitor with questions about plant specifics...

C. warscewiczii-hv-concolor-2022-06-13***Confirmed as Cattleya warscewiczii (Concolor) (Jun 2022); the form of the flower, leaves, and deeply grooved pseudobulbs fit the description of C. warscewiczii; however, hv. concolor is not accepted by Kew WCSPF as a valid subsp. name; but the unique color form should be recognized; Reichenbach coined the term "concolor" for a form of lueddemanniana where the lip disk color is the same as the sepals and petals and Menezes continued its use when describing C. labiata var. concolor; (Concolor) is used here to indicate this plant is in this color group.

Posted on Jun 13, 2022

NO SITF form completed to include with submission. Contact exhibitor (Ben Oliveros) for plant measurements.

Cattleya-x-hispidula-2022-03-30***Confirmed as Cattleya hispidula (Apr 2022); recognized by Kew as a species (not a natural hybrid); identification aided by Mario Rosim; photos show a range of color forms; the key features are the hairs at the base of the lip, the tall pseudobulbs with tall leaves which have more or less flattened blades; distinctly clawed midlobe margins in contrasting red or orange with the rest of the midlobe and claw white.***

Posted on Mar 30, 2022

Vendor unknown, source Brazil (Redlands Festival 2017) 13 cm wide clay pot, grown in sphagnum, bloomed from 8.5cm green sheath Mauro Rosim made identification as xhispidula, plant originally purchased...

Cattleya-trianae-For-the-Living-AM/AOS-(Challenged)-2021-11-15***Re-affirmed as Cattleya trianae (Nov 2021); the challenge has been removed; this plant is from a flask of two known C. trianae and sibling seedlings have flowered as tipo C. trianae; these plants have shown no signs of bifoliate influence; some of the confusion may have been due to photography, which may have rendered a color tone different than the true color of the specimen.***

Posted on Nov 15, 2021

Award has been challenged by an accredited judge that this is possibly not a C. trianae, but a hybrid, it was Illustrated on page 622 of the AOS "Orchids" for August 2021. This flower may have a bifol...

Cattleya-alvarenguensis’Irene’-CHM-2021-06-20***Confirmed as Cattleya alvarenguensis (Jan 2022); photos of the light lavender colored flower and an excellent botanical drawing by Campacci showing the veins in the lip match this plant to C. alvarenguensis.***

Posted on Jun 20, 2021

Cattleya-schilleriana-fmaalbum-2021-06-09***Determined to be Cattleya schilleriana (Alba Color Group) (Dec 2021); this plant fits the description of C. schilleriana; however, the alba form of C. schilleriana has not been taxonomically recognized, so the designation of fma. alba cannot be used for this species.***

Posted on Jun 9, 2021

Entry also received 81 pt. AM/AOS- award 20213769.