Judging Center: Mid-America
Award Number: 20234268
Award Date: January 01, 0001
Awarded As: Dresslerella lasiocampa 'Bryon' CBR
Two interestingly weird flowers on two inflorescences; plant small growing on a piece of cork 8cm wide x 8cm long with sphagnum moss, epiphytic, caespitose, slender roots; ramicauls green, horizontal to suberect, stout, 0.2cm wide x 3cm long, enclosed by three pilose, imbricating sheaths; leaf light green suffused purple beneath, erect in relationship to the ramicaul, fleshy, verruculose, covered on both sides by long, white trichomes, elliptical, obtuse, 2cm wide x 3cm long; inflorescence a succession of single flowers, borne on a erect peduncle1.5cm long with a basal sheath 0.5cm long at the base of the leaf; dorsal sepal translucent yellow-green, diffusely spotted purple, five veined, covered externally by a long, white pubescence, clavate tip yellow-orange, ovate-triangular, acute, acuminate, clavellate; lateral sepals translucent yellow-green heavily spotted purple, covered externally by a long, white pubescence, connate to the apex into a deeply concave, obtuse, scaphoid synsepal, 1.6cm expanded measurement; petals translucent with purple spots, minutely pubescent, clavate tip yellow-orange, obovate below the middle, apex acute, long-acuminate; lip light green stippled purple, pandurate, apical lobe ovate, minutely pubescent, apex rounded, apiculate, obovate below the narrow isthmus, lateral lobes thin, uncinate, erect, hinged to the column-foot; column 0.1cm wide x 0.5cm long, yellow-green, slender, semiterete, winged at the bidentate apex; ovary green, densely long-pubescent, 2.5cm long; substance firm; texture glossy; species from Ecuador; awarded for rarity, novelty and educational value; species from Ecuador; information from Icones Pleurothallidinarum #27, pages 278, 281; ID by SIFT_____________________.
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 2.5cm
Flower Natural Spread Length: 2.0cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 1.0cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.6cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.6cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 1.6cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 1.0cm
Flower > Petals Length: 1.4cm
Flower > Petals Width: 0.4cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 0.9cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.2cm
Flower > Column Length: 0.5cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.1cm
Flower > Column Color: yellow-green