What is this?

[adiaphane]

http://sfbotanicalgarden.org/cf/vietnam/56.html
Can anyone tell me what that is? My tired and sleep deprived eyes won't work. Why isn't the name posted next to the picture?

 

[bench72]

interesting that they call it a new species...

it kinda reminds me of a Paph hirsutissimum in that early stage of opening.

 

[Stephan]

The pictures aren't all that helpful are they? Sorry - lot's of supposition but I don't believe it'd be easy to tell without a fully open front on shot as well as the two side shots.

Looks interesting.

Cheers
Stephan

 

[silence882]

Given that they say it's new... I would guess it's Paph. x cribbii just opening. Averyanov just described a natural hybrid between appletonianum and villosum from Vietnam.

--Stephen