| It looks like Mike's plant has one leaf with an elongated bract, the part that attaches the leaf to the central stem. You can see the leaf-bract joint just above the tip of the new growth. The other leaf bracts are all normal. I would think there's a good chance the new leaf that has started will grow normally. While tight looking, the bract is split down the length and hopefully will giveway for the new leaf to emerge.
nenella's "thing" is a different story. I'v never seen anythign exactly like this on a Phal although I currently have one Paph with a leaf growing out like this.
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