Judging Center: Glencoe, Illinois
Award Number: 20232571
Award Date: February 12, 2023
Awarded As: Trichosalpinx escobarii 'Tiny Something'
Plant purchased from Ecuagenera
Twelve flowers, one bud on three pendent terminal inflorescences to five centimeters emerging from base of leaves, a fourth immature inflorescence, on a 17 tightly clustered growth plant 7.5-cm tall by 11-cm wide growing in a 4.5-cm plastic pot set inside a clay pot; unifoliate ramicauls to 9.5-cm, enveloped in 7-8 sheaths, leaves lanceolate, 1.7cm wide by 8-cm long; flowers sequentially blooming, cupped, base color translucent pale yellow-ivory; sepals ovate, lateral sepals center flushed burgundy; petals margin spiculose; lip deep burgundy, midline yellow stripe; column pale yellow: substance good; texture translucent matte. Awarded as Trichosalpinx escobarii for rareness in cultivation and botanical significance.
Plant > Overall length of growth/cane: 9.5 cm
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 1
Plant > Leaf Length: 8.0 cm
Plant > Leaf Width: 1.7 cm
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: unifoliate, lanceolate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: to 9.5 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 0.1 cm
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: 0.2 cm, not consistent
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 1.8 - 2.2 cm
Inflorescence > Arrangement: alternate
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 1.0 cm
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 0.3 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.3 cm
Inflorescence > distance from inflorescence to base of sepals: 0.3 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: 0.4 cm
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Width: 0.1 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 0.15 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.1 cm
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: conical
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: pale burgundy
Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.5 cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.3 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.4 cm
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.15 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.3 cm
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.15 cm
Flower > Petals Length: minute
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 0.15 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 0.05 cm
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): deep burgundy, midline yellow stripe
Flower > Column Length: 0.1 cm
Flower > Column Width: 0.05 cm
Flower > Column Color: pale yellow
Flower > Anther Cap Color: pale yellow