The American Orchid Society

SITF Submissions and Findings

The Species Identification Task Force receives submissions from orchid judging centers or exhibitors. The submissions are labeled by the name submitted under. When the plant's identity is confirmed, the last line in the post will have the correct name. We sometimes update pages with reference material pertinent to the submission.

Schoenorkis-phitamii-2022-09-19 *SITF confirms this plant as Schoenorchis phitamii (Jul 2023).

The flowers and leaves of this plant match available photos of S. phitamii, including Kew's POW, orchidroots.com and the OW; however, flowers appearing in the photos of this plant do not appear to be fully open. Matches description, drawing and photos in Die Orchidee 2017 Averyanov Article, "Schoenorchis phitamii spec. nov. Aver., a new ornamental miniature orchid species from southern Vietnam".

Posted on Sep 19, 2022

Schoenorchis-hangianae-2021-07-23Confirmed as Schoenorchis hangianae (Jul 2022); comparing this plant to the drawings, the vegetative growth and leaf spacing fits S. hangianae better than does the very similar S. scolopedria; S. scolopedria is described as millipede-like (super creeper); the leaves are much more closely spaced than is S. hangianae; the description also describes S. hangianae as pustulate-verruculose (rugged surface) in leaf texture, this can be seen in this plant when greatly enlarged.

Posted on Jul 23, 2021

Eight minute flowers on two inflorescences; dorsal sepal yellow, pink distally; lateral sepals white upper margin pink; petals yellow, pink distally; lip saccate pink, white internally, spur white 0.1...