I know its name...

[nancy]

I am trying to get an ID on the parents of this Chondranthes - here's a link to my post in the Maxillaria forum:
Chondranthes parentage search
Thanks!

[lambelkip]

Your plant is Chondrorhyncha candida, a natural hybrid which is sometimes listed as a Chondranthes. Unfortunately, none of the references I've found list the parents. Good luck. I'll let you know if I find anything.
I'm assuming this is the same plant from this thread, it looks like it's grown quite a bit.

[nancy]

Hi Kip -
I appreciate any info I can get - and *weird* that the link is a photo I took of this plant when I first got it - the flowers have obviously undergone some kind of change...or maybe it is just the temperature changes.
But I am sure the pink color, and the purple colors, are true. Anal retentive with camera.
I got the correct spelling of the name from the vendor, who is also clueless as to its parents.
Not sure if a name and no other information is better or worse than a NOID. At least I could name that Cattleya dumpsterii or something!
Cheers - Nancy

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Why is the heritage important?

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

I'm certain there's Cochleanthes flabelliformis. I've grown this species. I cannot mistaken it's wide lip with the striations that go from the left edge to the right edge of the lip. It's there. It shows up faintly, but clearly in your plant. You've got one species in the mix down.

I have a little time now to look through some of the pictures in Particia Harding's book, and am starting to see the Warczewiczella (Cochleanthes) candida.

I now suspect that instead of Pescatorea, the recurved lip may be from Warczewiczella (Cochleanthes) amazonica.

I still don't see a true Chondrorhyncha sp. in there.

A true Chondrorhyncha species is something that looks like Chondrorhyncha hirtzii.

http://www.orchidspecies.com/chondhirtzii.htm

None of the Chondrorhyncha traits show up. Absolutely none that I can even remotely detect.

Like I said, this intergeneric may have been made prior to all the genus name changes, it may be going off old names. This is probably why you're having a hard time finding this plant's heritage successfully.

There's nothing on-line, other than my guesses.