Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi fma chattaladae, peloric

Nice dark color form! Love that!

 

It's not peloric, sorry, it's still laterally symmetric. Pelorism in orchids needs radial symmetry. But it's strange nonetheless.

Hint:
Nurse it into a rare new cornu-cervi form and you're rich. 3

 

Peloria (or pelorism) is defined as there being symmetry where none is expected. In orchids that is either the lip looking like a petal, or petals looking like a lip.

I can see where the petals on that plant "might" be construed as looking like the lip, but they're really not all THAT similar.

 

I have never seen a cornu-cervi with petals like that. Very, very unusual.

 

If you have a flower with radial symmetry in its normal state (like daisies), peloria will be a variation with bilateral symmetry.

If you have a flower with bilateral symmetry in its normal state (like orchids), peloria will be a variation with radial symmetry.

 

Could it be that the petals are just slightly miss-formed? The pelorics I've see, like Ray said, have either 3 symmetrical lips or petals that look very similar.

 

I'd say the petals are half a label without the plying.