Judging Center: Pacific Northwest
Award Number: 20225488
Award Date: June 05, 2022
Awarded As: Stanhopea avicula
Two flowers in a mirrored arrangement and no buds on one pendulous 10.5-cm inflorescence; Plant 43 cm tall by 53 cm wide grown in moss in a 10 cm plastic pot; leaves spathulate, ribbed, green, to 42 cm in length; flowers bird-shaped; sepals and petals yellow; lip snail-shaped, saccate, hornless, calceolate, beaked, fleshy, proximal two-thirds thickened, waxy, butter yellow marginally, spotted maroon; column pale apple green, spotted maroon; substance flesh, texture waxy; origin lowland central America.
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 45.2
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 1
Plant > Leaf Length: 42
Plant > Leaf Width: 10
Plant > Leaf Margin: smooth
Plant > Leaf Shape: spathulate
Plant > Leaf petiole length (apex of pseudobulb or stem to leaf base proper): 9.3
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 3.2
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 3
Plant >Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Root Tip Color: green
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 10.5
Inflorescence > Arrangement: bifloral with flowers facing one another
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 4.5
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 4
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 4
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: 3.5
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Width: 3
Flower Natural Spread Length: 3.5
Flower Natural Spread Width: 6.2
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 3
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 1.4
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 3.1
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 2.5
Flower > Petals Length: 3.4
Flower > Petals Width: 1.5
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 2.5
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 1.5
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): saccate, proximal half shaped like the breast and head of a bird
Flower > Column Length: 2.5
Flower > Column Width: .4
Flower > Column Color: green with purple spots
Flower > Anther Cap Color: cream