Chelonistele richardsii Carr 1935 Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Full shade Warm Spring

Common Name or Meaning Richard's Chelonistele

Flower Size

Found on the borders of Brunei and Sarawak {Borneo] in lower montane mossy ridge forests at elevations of 1500 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with basally swollen, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, plicate, obovate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, stiff, 3 to 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in ths spring on a synanthous, flexuous, to 11" [22.5 cm] long, pendulous, to 12 flowered, racemose inflroescence

Synonyms *Coelogyne richardsii (Carr) Masam. 1942

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 1 De Vogel 1986; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001

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