Judging Center: Chicago
Award Number: 20232615
Award Date: July 09, 2023
Awarded As: Dendrobium sinominutiflorum 'Little Green Gem'
Three flowers and fourteen buds on three inflorescences to 2-cm on a nine growth plant 6.5-cm wide by 5.5-cm tall mounted on a 5-cm by 8-cm cork slab; pseudobulbs elongate to 3.5-cm long by 0.5-cm wide, two with active growth; leaves to 3.5-cm long by 0.7-cm wide, lanceolate, midline longitudinal crease; inflorescences both axillary and apical; flowers very pale translucent green; sepals and petals lanceolate, center slightly darker green; lip margin ruffled, two central keels; column light green; substance translucent, medium, texture crystalline; awarded as Den. sinominutiflorum, recognized for botanical significance, native to southern Yunnan China.
Also see FOC Vol.25, page 370, 394; viewable at www.efloras.org
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 5.5 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 6
Plant > Leaf Length: 3.5 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 0.7 cm
Plant > Leaf Shape: lanceolate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 3.5 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 0.5 cm
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: green
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 2.5 cm
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 0.5 cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 0.3 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.3 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.3 cm
Flower Natural Spread Length: 1.0 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.0 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.55 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.15 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.5 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.3 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): 2 central keels