Cleisocentron gokusingii shrevport

Shreveport Judging Center 20175156

Cleisocentron gokusingii 2 determined to be Cleisocentron merillianum

20161896  PNW

Cleisocentron gokusingii, award 20161896, has been determined to be Cleisocentron merillianum by SITF (Dec 2016).  

Cleisocentron gokusingii determined to be Cleisocentron merrillianum

Cleisocentron gokusingii J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb, Malesian Orchid J. 1: 88 (2008).
This name is accepted.


Eighteen flowers and approximately one hundred and twenty-five buds on eight inflorescences on a 21cm wide by 58 cm tall monopodal plant; three blooming mature keikeis and four non-blooming basal keikeis, grown in a 10cm round treefern pot; leaves semi-terete to 12 cm long; flowers translucent concolour light grey-blue; lip with deep blue central "T" basal into 1.0cm nectary; anther cap white; substance firm; texture crystaline.

CHM 20151372 from Toronto

NS 1.5 vert x 0.5 cm, including nectary
DS 0.5 x 0.3
PT 0.5 x 0.2
LS 0.6 x 0.35
LP 1.0 x 0.5 including nectary

Cleisocentron gokusingii, award 20151372, has been determined to be Cleisocentron merrillianum by SITF (sept 2015). 

Cleisocentron merrillianum

This should look familiar...
No information acompanied the pictures, other than this:
Silverton, July 2009, award 20095874 SITF.

Cleisocentron merrillianum award 20095874 has been confirmed to be Cleisocentron merrillianum by the SITF. There are two previous CHM’s to this award and unless you state something about this clone that is superior or different from the previous awards the award will be nullified.Patricia Harding, chair Species Identification Task Force

Patricia Harding

Cleisocentron merrillianum

From Eric, unexpurgated:

Dear Maureen,

Your plant is Cleisocentron merrillianum (note spelling).

Alas my identification won't work for the AOS. They declared war on me by insisting that I am an orchid smuggler. I tell them to go F$%$ themselves every chance I get.

I collected the species in Borneo and was the one to correctly place the species in Cleisocentron which had previously been restricted to the mainland.

I will copy this to Harding and McHatton of the on again/off again AOS Identification Task Force.

Hope that helps, Eric

From Ron MacHatton:

Patricia:        I spoke to Aileen this morning about this award 

and there is a way  to save this.  Once the SITF confirms the ID 

she can process it even  though there is now a pre-existing CHM.  

The color of these flowers is  sky blue with a darker blue lip.  

The November CHM is to a plant with  white sepals and petals and 

a contrasting blue lip; sufficiently  different to allow this one 

to stand.  Ron

Dear Jack and Maureen;

Cleisocentron merrillianum award 20085653 has been confirmed to be  Cleisocentron merrillianum by the SITF with the assistance of Eric Christenson.  You may now process the award.
 This clone differs from another award in that the entire flower is blue rather than just the lip spur.

Please include this last sentence in the description.

Patricia Harding, chair Species Identification Task Force