Chelinostele sulphurea
Flowers about 2cm or say ¾ inch across. Some scent, as one would expect from a white flower.
This is vaguely a relative of Coelogyne, Pleione, etc., and i grow it the same way , drying off after bulbs made up , then starting watering again when the new shoots expand, and most critically, being very shy with fertiliser, in fact using plain rain water most of the time - anything else results in leaf tip burn I find. The flowers come out of the expanding new growths.
Not a show stopper of course - its too small to qualify, but quite pretty IMHO.
One of these shots has only the central flower sharp - a usual problem with small flowers at high magnifications, when the depth of field is poor. I have just bought, and started playing about with Stackshot - this will be an ideal subject, if and when I have got to grips with properly - take say 50 shots with the camera moved maybe 1mm between each two, and combine them with the appropriate software. If I get it sorted in time I may come back and add an extra pic or two here.
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