Judging Center: Chicago Judging Center
Award Number: 20191614
Award Date: June 08, 2019
Awarded As: Encyclia gonzalezii 'Tucuruvi's Aibonito'
Plant obtained from AWZ orchids and labeled as Encyl. toncantinensis. Name description and photos referenced rom the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (KEW) where gonzalezii is considered a synonym and the accepted name. Other reference materials include Orchid Digest "New Encyclia Sp from the Planalto of Brazil" issue January-Mar 1991 page 24. Possibly flowering late in Minnesota due to long cold winter.
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 28 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: one leaf per conic-elongate shaped bulb
Plant > Leaf Length: 24 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 1.3 cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: center
Plant > Leaf Shape: narrow lanceolate
Plant > Leaf petiole length (apex of pseudobulb or stem to leaf base proper): conical round
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 3 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 1.9 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: conical-elongate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: 0.5 cm
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: green
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 22 cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: simple
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 18 cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 4 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.8 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.8 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: n/a
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Width: n/a
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 1.0 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.1 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: round?
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: grenish brown tinging
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: rubbery
Flower Natural Spread Length: 2.7 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 2.6 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.2 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.4 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 1.4 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.4 cm
Flower > Petals Length: 1.1 cm
Flower > Petals Width: 0.3 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 1.3 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.6 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): lip and sidelobes trilobed yellow proximally, white distally with minute striatins
Flower > Column Length: 0.5 cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.3 cm
Flower > Column Color: white green at base/proximally
Flower > Anther Cap Color: rose