Coelogyne carinata Rolfe 1895 SECTION Speciosae Lindley Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Side View of Flower Photos by © Art Vogel

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Common Name or Meaning The Keeled Coelogyne

Flower Size 1 to 1 3/8" [2.5 to 3.5 cm]

Found in Sulawesi and Papua and New Guinea as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte occuring low-down on smooth, moss-free, smaller tree trunks at elevations of 100 to 2300 meters in humid locations along streams and rivers with pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2 apical, plicate, lanceolate leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect to arcuate, 4 to 4 3/4" [10 to 12 cm] long, racemose, few flowered inflorescence that arises out of a newly arising pseudobulb growth [Synanthous] with successively opening [2 at a time] flowers [to 8] lasting about a week and occuring at the onset of the rainy season in the fall and winter.

Synonyms Coelogyne alata [Milar 1978] ?; Coelogyne oligantha Schltr. 1919; Coelogyne sarasinorum Kraenzl. 1907; Coelogyne truncicola Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as Coelogyne truncicola Schltr. 1911; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as C alata photo ok; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing/photo fide; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 as C truncicola drawing/photo fide; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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