Phal. w/extra parts
 

This plant has bloomed for 5 years, perfect flowers this time they have extra parts, anybody have an idea, desease, culture, mutation of some sort.

It looks like a hairlip :hmm

The term for this is a 'peloric' flower. Check out

www.angrek.com/AAOS/past/9802/TXT/peloria.html

for an explanation of why this may occur

the above link didn't work ... try googling for article by Alex Challis titled:

Excessive Lip Service: Peloric Orchids

It's seems like a pseudo-peloric (my own term :biggrin: ) where the labellum has taken on the characteristic of the petal or sepal.
I still think it looks like a hairlip

:coverlaugh:

Here you go:

Peloric Orchids

Thank you Susanne, that helped me a lot.
Jim.

...and my thanks goes to Joanna (cneos) for having suggested the article :D

I found it to be very interesting as I have a peloric phal equestris and it happens to be one of my favorites :D

Which one? Sue
I could have gotten 'Gino' peloric but I chose not to and my non-peloric is in bud :) .. I find it needs a lot of water :nod: (it is growing in chc, charcoal and perlite not sphag)

It's Phal equestris
(Blue Too - peloric x Three Times A Lady)