Judging Center: National Capital Judging Center
Award Number: 20184800
Award Date: January 06, 2018
Awarded As: Paphiopedilum coccineum
To: SITF
From: Valerie Lowe, Chair, National Capital Judging Center
Date: March30, 2017
Plant awarded at National Capital Center Judging in Washington DC on January 6, 2018 as:
20184800 – Paphiopedilum coccineum, CHM/83
Info found:
WCSP: Accepted Paphiopedilum coccineum Perner & R.Herrm., Orchidee (Hamburg) 51: 623 (2000).
Distribution: Vietnam
This name is Accepted by:
• Koopowitz, H. (2012). An updated, annotated checklist of the genus Paphiopedilum. Orchid Digest 76: 178-215.
And in IOSPE: http://www.orchidspecies.com/paphcoccineum.htm
Description from entry form: Three flowers on three 15-cm inflorescences; on a 30-cm diameter, compact, miniature plant; pinched, hooded dorsal sepal white, centrally dark red brown; synsepal yellow green; ruffled petals yellow green, red brown centrally; pouch yellow green, red brown centrally; staminode yellow; dark yellow boss; substance heavy, texture waxy. Awarded for compact miniature habit and anthocyanin pigmentation in the flowers.
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 30
Plant > Leaf Length: 7
Plant > Leaf Width: 1.5
Plant > Leaf Margin: ENTIRE
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 15.5
Inflorescence > Arrangement: TERMINAL
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: 3.0
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Width: 2.0
Flower Natural Spread Length: 7.2
Flower Natural Spread Width: 7.8
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 6.5
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 3.5
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 4
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 2.2
Flower > Petals Length: 4.9
Flower > Petals Width: 1.5
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 4.5
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 2.6