Den Micro Chip x ?

[mook1178]

I lost the tag to this plant. I know it was a micro chip back crossed with a parent. I feel that is was aberrans since the spotting seems to be less than a micro chip. Also, if it was atro, I think there would be more purple inside the lip.

What are your thoughts?

[Ray]

If you're sure it's Micro Chip back-crossed to either aberrans or normanbyense (which looks similar to atroviolaceum), your plant definitely leans more toward aberrans, making it D. Nano Chip

[mook1178]

Thank you Ray.

I know it was a parent cross. I was pretty sure it was aberrans, but not positive.

On the normanbyense and atroviolaceum, are they not considered atroviolaceum now? Would normanbyense be a variety?

[Ray]

Originally Posted by mook1178

On the normanbyense and atroviolaceum, are they not considered atroviolaceum now? Would normanbyense be a variety?

Both Orchid Wiz and IOSPE have it separately, with the latter saying “ Originally thought to be a small variety of D atroviolaceum, it has recently been elevated to species status.”

[mook1178]

Okay. It's the other way around. So the Micro Chip was bred with the atro variety, which later became the normanbyense.

[Bombotany]

It looks very much like Nano Chip. Soft spotting on the front, light spotting on the back, yellow labellum. I sell Nano Chip, Chocolate Chip and Micro Chip - I'm pretty confident it's Nano.