Provisional Awards

San Diego, CA, May 7, 2019

Masdevallia Susy de Bermeo ‘Windflower’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
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Plant Name: Masdevallia Susy de Bermeo ‘Windflower’ AM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: (Masd. Angel Frost x Masd. Gold Dust)

Natural Spread Horizontal: 4.5 cm Vertical: 14.2 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 2.5 cm Length: 9.5 cm
Petal Width: 0.4 cm Length: 1.0 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 4.5 cm Length: 8.7 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 0.3 cm Length: 0.9 cm

Description: Two full flowers on two erect 15.0-cm inflorescences; sepals orange overlaid vibrant red-orange, dense lavender pubescence coalescing centrally into a vertical lavender stripe; caudae red-orange, flat, nearly straight, dorsal caudae 5.5cm, lateral caudae 4.0cm; petals cream; lip cream, magenta distally; column cream, anther cap white; substance firm; texture matte, pubescence reflective.
Exhibitor: Betty Kelepecz
Aerangis fuscata ‘Windflower’ CHM/AOS 82 pts.
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Plant Name: Aerangis fuscata ‘Windflower’ CHM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 4.0 cm Vertical: 13.5 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.6 cm Length: 2.4 cm
Petal Width: 0.5 cm Length: 2.7 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.5 cm Length: 2.4 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.2 cm Length: 3.2 cm

Description: Three graceful flowers on one 10.0-cm pendulous inflorescence borne on a monopodal, small growth, mounted on a thin, 15.0-cm x 1.5-cm stick, with two up to 5.0-cm long by 2.8-cm wide obovate, bilobed, entire, leaves, red-green and green on reverse, attached apically on a 2.0-cm long by 0.4-cm diameter stem; raceme originated from the axel of the dried sheath of the most recently lost leaf; sepals and petals, narrowly lanceolate, yellow, lightly overlaid rose; lip broadly lanceolate, white, 14.8-cm spur yellow, lightly overlaid rose; column light yellow-green, white apically, stigmatic surface very large, appearing as two cavities side by side, anther cap yellow; substance medium; texture crystalline; ovary and pedicel light brown; floral bract dried, brown; country of origin is Madagascar; SITF has confirmed that AOS award 20195236 is Aerangis fuscata; awarded for its charm and horticultural potential.
Exhibitor: Betty Kelepecz
Aerangis fuscata ‘Windflower’ CHM/AOS 82 pts. Flower
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Sobralia dorbignyana ‘Windflower’ CHM/AOS 82 pts.
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Plant Name: Sobralia flava ‘Windflower’ CHM/AOS 82 pts.
Parentage: Species

Natural Spread Horizontal: 2.9 cm Vertical: 2.9 cm
Dorsal Sepal
Width: 0.3 cm Length: 2.8 cm
Petal Width: 0.6 cm Length: 2.5 cm
Lateral Sepal (Synsepal): Width: 0.3 cm Length: 2.6 cm
Lip (Pouch): Width: 1.5 cm Length: 2.5 cm

Description: Five flowers and forty-eight buds on two terminal up to 16.0-cm inflorescences, borne on a six growth plant deeply set in a very loose bark mix in a 13.5-cm round clay pot; leaves up to 20.5-cm in length and up to 2.8-cm in width, narrowly lanceolate, sharply acute, base narrowly tapered, somewhat clasping base, distichously arranged proximally on 0.4-cm diameter by to 84.0-cm tall, cane like, stems; flowers sequentially blooming, bright yellow, sepals and petals slightly forward, margins slightly reflexed, distally finely erose, lip perpendicular to the sepal and petal plane, enclosing column, margin flared into an open bell, erose, undulate, four keels slightly darker yellow; column yellow cream; substance medium; texture satiny; Country of origin is unknown; Confirmed as Sobralia flava instead of Sobralia dorbignyana by SITF.
Exhibitor: Betty Kelepecz
Sobralia flava ‘Windflower’ CHM/AOS 82 pts. Flower
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