Judging Center: Northeast
Award Number: 20194334
Award Date: August 17, 2019
Awarded As: Plectrophora calcarhamata 'Irene' CHM/AOS
One tubular yellow flower well-presented on a horizontal inflorescence, and one immature inflorescence, displayed on a fan-shaped, 13 cm wide by 17 cm tall plant grown mounted on a 9 cm wide x 5 cm tall tree fern plaque; lanceolate sepals solid yellow; petals yellow, frame lip, apically flaring outward; tubular lip yellow spotted orange on interior, margins ruffled; spur yellow and straight; substance of sepals firm, petals and lip light; texture matte; Native to Brazil; confirmed by SITF
Purchased from Floralia
Vegetatively similar to Ornithocephalus
Reference - Alex hawkes: Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids 1987 pp 381 & 383
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 10 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 3
Plant > Leaf Length: 8.5 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 1 cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: laterally compressed, lanceolate
Plant > Leaf petiole length (apex of pseudobulb or stem to leaf base proper): 0
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 1.5 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 0.2 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Margin: flattened
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: 0.2 cm
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: non-visible
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 4.5 cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: single flowered
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 1 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 1 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: 0.2 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 2 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: .05 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: triangular
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: light green
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: slightly ridged
Flower Natural Spread Length: 4.2 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 2.5 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.4 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 1.5 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.4 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 1.4 cm
Flower > Petals Length: 1.5 cm
Flower > Petals Width: 1.0 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 4.0 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 1.2 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): 1.8 cm spur