Help to identify a Pleione

[LarsB]

I've bought this pleione from a serious seller yesterday. We discussed what it was. He had labeled it Plieone chunii, but I've never seen a chunii with such small flowers. It is more like a nice size hookeriana. Even though i can see the resemblance to chunii, especially the sharpe of the bulbs, i've never seen a chunii that small. Can anyone help?

[ThomasB]

The flower looks like Pleione chunii to me - a nice one! 

[Slug Killer]

Normal looking P. chunii.

You say it's small but there is nothing to scale it against in your photo.

David

[Maren]

It's Pleione chunii.

[LarsB]

Thank you for the replies. The size is as a hookeriana and the one i had a few years ago was apprixmately twice the size. As it has been considered a synonym for aurita i'd never expected a clone so close to hookeriana in size.

[Maren]

Hi Lars,

here is one of mine. The pseudobulb of P. chunii is rather pointed and elongated, whereas the pseudobulb of P. hookeriana is small and round. P aurita is quite different altogether.

Here are my own:
P. chunii
P. hookeriana
P. aurita

[Slug Killer]

Picture of Pleione hookeriana and Pleione chunii next to each other.

Both of these are quite pale clones.