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Originally Posted by jkofferdahl
The more I look at the flower, the more I think it's at least strongly influenced by Phal. (aka Doritis) pulcherrima. I can't really see the lip clearly enough to tell if it has ridges running from back to front but if it is then it's quite likely a cultivar of the species itself.
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I've been looking at the P. buyssoniana (the flower looks very similar but the description of the leaves from the IOSPE page is dead on), which itself apparently used to be considered a variant of P. pulcherrima. The pulcherrima is a little confusing for me since I'm not familiar with the species myself and from the pictures I've found online, it seems highly variable. It does have ridges on the lip but only very faintly so I think probably not full pulcherrima. I did however find a photo of a pulcherrima x buyssoniana that it looks almost identical to save for the shape of the outer petals. I read that the buyssoniana is the only natural tetraploid of the phals and I'm tempted to count its chromosomes just to see what it comes out as.
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