Judging Center: Mid-American Judging Center
Award Number: 20234261
Award Date: January 28, 2023
Awarded As: Dracula saulii
Four fuzzy flowers and two developing buds on six pendant inflorescences, on a 17 cm by 26 cm plant mounted on a sphagnum attached to a porous ceramic tube; sepals fused, white marked chestnut on reverse, centrally covered with velutinous hairs, caudae chestnut reflexed 2.4-cm long; petals minute, brown; lip white constricted centrally, broadened distally; substance moderate; texture soft; recognized for rarity in cultivation.
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 26cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: single
Plant > Leaf Length: 26cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 1.4cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire, smooth
Plant > Leaf Shape: linear-lanceolate
Plant > Leaf petiole length (apex of pseudobulb or stem to leaf base proper): 0.8cm
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: not visible
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 13.0cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: pendent
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 13cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: single flowered
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.35cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.35cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 0.35cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.2cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: round
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: chestnut
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: smooth
Flower Natural Spread Length: 4.2cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 6.8cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.1cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 3.5cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Cauda Length: 2.7cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Cauda Width: 0.1cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 1.1cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 5.3cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Caudae Length: 3.9cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Caudae Width: 0.1cm
Flower > Petals Length: 0.1cm
Flower > Petals Width: 0.2cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 0.4cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.6cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): medial callus
Flower > Column Length: 0.3cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.1cm
Flower > Column Color: white
Flower > Anther Cap Color: white