Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20194330
Award Date: August 17, 2019
Awarded As: Coelogyne odoardi 'Irene' CHM/HCC/AOS`
Thirty-seven lovely stellate flowers alternately arranged and beautifully displayed on three pendulous inflorescences bearing deep brown bracts at the point where each flower emerges; robust plant grown in a moss filled 15 cm square basket; sepals and petals start out light rust then become old gold as flowers mature; lip white striped mahogany centrally, deep mahogany marginally, triangular yellow spot apically; column white; anther cap white, yellow on margins; a beautifully colored flower in a genus known mostly for its ivory white flowers; this cultivar also received at this judging an HCC/AOS (Award 20194331); native to Borneo; confirmed by SITF
Purchased from Ooi Long Sun, Malaysia
leaves coriaceous; inflorescence terminal, pendulous
Dudley Clayton - The Genus Coelogyne, 2002 pp. 143-4, p. 235
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 25 to 50 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 2
Plant > Leaf Length: 26.0 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 6.5 cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: ovo-lanceolate
Plant > Leaf petiole length (apex of pseudobulb or stem to leaf base proper): 6.0 - 7.0 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 9.0 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 3.5 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: ovate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: aggregate
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: non-visible
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 39 cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: raceme
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 14.0 cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 2.0 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 2.0 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 2.0 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: 2.5 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Width: 1.1 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 1.0 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.2 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: cylinder
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: green, dark chestnut hairs
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: hirsute
Flower Natural Spread Length: 6.3 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 7.5 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 4.0 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 1.5 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 4.1 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 1.3 cm
Flower > Petals Length: 3.5 cm
Flower > Petals Width: 0.5 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 3.2 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 1.1 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): keels, bristles proximally
Flower > Column Length: 2.4 cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.8 cm
Flower > Column Color: pale ivory
Flower > Anther Cap Color: pale ivory