Coelogyne cf bruneiensis de Vogel 1992 SECTION Tomentosae

Another Angle

Inflorescence Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt

Part shade Hot Fall

Common Name The Brunei Coelogyne

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Brunei Borneo in riverine forsts near waterfalls, 6 to 15' up on tree trunks at elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, spindle shaped, terete to rhomboid, shallowly grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2, rather stiff, narrowly elliptic, narrowly acute, plicate, 3 to 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the 1 to 2"+ petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a heteranthous, pendulous, slightly fractiflex, 7.6" [19 cm] long, to 12 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; The Genus Coelogyne, A Synopsis Clayton 2002 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------