Judging Center: Great Plains Judging Center
Award Number: 20223599
Award Date: August 20, 2022
Awarded As: Agrostophyllum planicaule 'Bryon' CBR
Nine stellate flowers six buds on 15 inflorescences up to 0.4cm long; plant growing in a 6.5cm square plastic pot with a fine bark mixture, plant 42cm wide x 31cm tall, largest growth 12cm wide x 31cm tall, lean and weedy orchid with a fleshy flattened stem carrying two to four oblong leaves, largest leaf 2.2cm wide x 19.5cm long, largest stem 2.0cm wide x 13.5cm long, that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a globose-capitate, densely many flowered, short inflorescence with fibrous-membranous, lanceolate, subacute, brown floral bracts, root tips green; sepals and petals translucent white; lip white, pale yellow proximally, erose margins distally, side lobes small, pale yellow, ovary small, white; column white with white cup-like projection on inferior, distal end, anther cap white and age to tan with brown central spot; ovary 0.1cm wide x 0.7cm long, greenish white, ribbed longitudinally, covered with dry brown bracts; substance sepals and petals light, lip heavy; texture crystalline; flowers age to pale yellow; species native to Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam; ID by SITF _______________.
Plant came from Oak Hill Gardens in 2007
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 31cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 2-4
Plant > Leaf Length: 19.5cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 2.2cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: smooth
Plant > Leaf Shape: oblong
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 13.5cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 2.0
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: smooth
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: tightly clustered
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: green
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 0.4cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 0.7cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.1cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: terete
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: greenish-white
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: ribbed longitudinally
Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.5cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.4cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.3cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.2cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.4cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.2cm
Flower > Petals Length: 0.3cm
Flower > Petals Width: 0.1cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 0.4cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): distal margin erose
Flower > Column Color: white
Flower > Anther Cap Color: white, age to tan with a central brown spot