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May 04, 2017

Bulbophyylum trigonosepalum great lakes







20172625 great lakes

May 01, 2017

Oberonia cavaleriei




20174265  PNW

April 28, 2017

Platystele hirtzii





20173534 Ottawa

Platystele hirtzii Luer, Selbyana 5: 155 (1979).
This name is accepted.

Stelis cooperi




20173535  Ottawa

April 19, 2017

Catasetum oscar

Natural Spread
3.0
3.5
Dorsal Sepal
1.7
3.2
Petals
1.8
3.2
Lateral Sepals
2.1
3.2
Lip / Pouch
2.3
3.0





Description: Ten hooded, male flowers on one 45-cm inflorescence; plant 30-cm wide and 35-cm tall; pseudobulbs 4-cm wide and 9-cm long; sepals ovate, green; petals ovate, green, spotted minutely red-brown; lip cordate, saccate, green, interior veined darker green, distal portion pointed, fleshy, bulbous, white; substance hard; texture waxy.
20175973 pnw

Cyrtochilum soderoi

Natural Spread
3.6
4.7
Dorsal Sepal
0.8
3.2
Petals
0.7
2.0
Lateral Sepals
0.6
3.0
Lip / Pouch
0.5
1.8





Description: One hundred and sixty-eight open flowers and 3 buds on three branched 150-cm arched inflorescences on two growths; plant 75-cm wide and 60-cm tall in a 35 cm basket grown in bark; pseudobulb round 4.0-cm wide, 10-cm long; leaves lanceolate, 3.0-cm wide, 45 cm-long; sepals and petals lanceolate, margins wavy, green-yellow, spotted purple-brown basal half; lip pandurate, basal half purple, callus toothed, dull white; substance malleable; texture crystalline.

20175972 pnw

Cyrtochilum ventilabrum









Natural Spread
3.2
4.5
Dorsal Sepal
1.5
2.0
Petals
1.0
1.6
Lateral Sepals
1.5
1.8
Lip / Pouch
0.8
1.3




Description:  Ninety-eight fairly flat, full flowers and four buds on a 250-cm climbing inflorescence; plant 48-cm wide and 72-cm tall; pseudobulb slightly flattened, 2.5-cm wide and 11-cm long; sepals widely spatulate, brown; petals widely spatulate, brown, white apically; lip widely spatulate, purple band apically, callus randomly papillose, spotted brown with yellow tips; substance firm; texture matte.

20175970 pnw