Coelogyne brachyptera Rchb. f. 1881 SECTION Brachypterae D.A.Clayton.

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

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Common Name or Meaning The Short-Winged Coelogyne [refers to the side lobes of the lip being wing-like]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in primary montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with elongate-ovoid, angled pseudobulbs carrying 2 elliptic-lanceolate, suberect, plicate, petiolate acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a pendulous to erect, terminal, 7 1/4" [18 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with 5 to 7, fragrant, simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms Pleione brachyptera (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895 1995; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003;