Coelogyne corymbosa Lindl. 1853 SECTION Ocellatae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Umbrella-Like Coelogyne - In China Yan Ban Bei Mu Lan

Flower Size Up to 2 3/4" [to 7 cm]

A creeping, small sized, cold to cool growing, epiphytic species from Nepal, Bhutan, northeastern India, and China on trees in forest margins or on humid cliffs that is found at elevations of 1400 to 3500 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with short, clustered, ovoid to subrhomboidal pseudobulbs envelopd basally by a few dark brown sheaths and carrying 2 apical, ellptic-lanceolate, suberect, plicate, 5 nerved, acute, gradually narrowing below in tothe elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves that blooms with a terminal, erect or pendant, basally sheathed, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly emerging pseusobulb growth has persistent floral bracts and with 2 to 5, simultaneously opening, fragrant, heavy textured flowers occuring in the summer and fall.

Synonyms Coelogyne taronensis Hand.-Mazz. 1922; Pleione corymbosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 11 1998 photo; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 4 2002 photo; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing plant only; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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