Judging Center: Great Plains Judging Center
Award Number: 20223611
Award Date: October 15, 2022
Awarded As: Habenaria crinifera
Eleven white flowers and one bud on one strong, upright 44cm terminal inflorescence on a terrestrial, tuberous plant grown in an 6cm plastic pot of small bark mix, 6 basally clustered, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves, 2.5cm wide x 12cm long randomly arranged; petals and sepals blushed light green inferior, distal one-half; petals enclosed in hooded dorsal sepal; lip white, midlobe clawed, cleft with two lance shaped long tailed segments, side lobes with the lateral margins toothed proximally; complex reproductive parts white; ovary 0.2cm wide x 3cm long, dark green, ribbed longitudinally; sheath around ovary 0.5cm wide x 1.7cm long, green; spur 0.1cm wide x 3.5cm long, clavate, light green, darker distally; substance medium; texture waxy; species native to eastern Himalayas, India and Sri Lanka; ID by SITF ______________.
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 6
Plant > Leaf Length: 12
Plant > Leaf Width: 2.5
Plant > Leaf Margin: smooth
Plant > Leaf Shape: oblong-lanceolate
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 44
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 3
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.2
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: terete
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: dark green
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: ribbed longitudinally
Flower Natural Spread Length: 4.1
Flower Natural Spread Width: 4.5
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.0
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.6
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.7
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.5
Flower > Petals Length: 0.5
Flower > Petals Width: 0.2
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 2.5
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 4.5
Flower > Column Color: white