Phalaenopsis

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Phalaenopsis pantherina (Sep 2025). Species in the cornu-cervi complex are similar and the key difference is in their lip form. Examining the lip dissection and the comparison image of the three similar species, this clearly looks like P. pantherina and is not P. cornu-cervi or P. boreenensis. This plant also matches prior AOS awards, which were not previously verified by SITF or other authority.

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Flower Natural Spread Length: 5.2

Flower Natural Spread Width: 4.7

Dorsal Sepal Length: 2.8

Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.9

Lateral Sepals Length: 3.3

Lateral Sepals Width: 1.5

Petals Width: 0.8

Judging Center: FNCJC

Award Number: 20251176

Award Date: August 23, 2025

Awarded As: AM

Three attractive stellate flowers and one bud on one staked 30-cm. inflorescence; sepals and petals yellow-green, barred mahogany, coalesced basally, sepals lanceolate, apiculate, petals lanceolate, proximally reflexed; lip trilobed, white, midlobe distally parabolic, margins dentate, ventrally keeled, side lobes upright, fanged; column yellow, ventrally spotted red substance firm; texture waxy.

Submitted to SITF as prior awards were never verified

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