Phal mannii 'Black'
 

This is the first time flowering for this plant. The flowers have been unusual as they are missing the lip.

I think it's peloric flower, interesting. I hope that next flowers will be ok :)

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It's not peloric, just missing the lip. It's not unusual for a first time bloom to look a little strange.

Thanks for the information, I quite like it without the lip:biggrin:

Alien and cool!

My mannii 'Black' did exactly the same thing this year. On a spike of 10 flowers the first 4 to open looked like this. On the second spike of 7 flowers the first 3 to open looked like this.

I wonder if UK temps influenced this this year. I had thought mine might have been due to my use of seaweed in the weeks the first buds were forming, but I don't really know what caused it. It just seems interesting that two of us in the UK have had the same thing this year though.

I wouldn't worry anyway. The later flowers on my spikes were all correctly formed. I think your plant will be fine in the future even if this spike does that.

My mistake, I always thought that this is peloric flower.
For me peloric is when the flower is different than it should be. With double lips or without petals :) Any distortion of the inflorescence.

This is the most important :goodluck: I'm glad that you like it :)

I also use seaweed (Shropshire), so it may well be the cause.

Use less… once every 3 weeks at best ;)

Pelorism is a change of system of symmetry. For orchids it means it's no more un bilateral symmetry and now in radial symmetry.

The malformed flower (now it's an interesting one ;) is still in bilateral symmetry.

[edit: my interval for seaweed use was unclear…]

Interesting!