Doritaenopsis Chain Xen Queen - is this peloric?

[josterha]

Hello all,

I have had this plant for about six months. It has been a great bloomer. In fact, it has been in bloom since I bought it in mid-August, 2009! The flowers have some strange structural qualities. I thought at first that it may have a virus that was causing some deformity to the flowers. I have recently read in an old AOS Orchids magazine about peloric flowers, in which the plant produces three lips instead of two petals and a lip. I'm not exactly sure if this is what is happening here, but I thought I would attach a photo and others could chime in. Maybe someone else has the same grex and can comment in they have the same situation.


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Thanks,

John

[Orchidophile]

Yup, that looks peloric or semi-peloric. They have not quite formed a full lip structure so we call it semi