Coelogyne echinolabium de Vogel 1992 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer

Plant and Inflorescence Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Part shadeHot Winter LATESpringEARLYSummer

Common Name The Bristley Coelogyne [refers to the lip and the mass of protuberances]]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Sarawak and Brunei Borneo lowland and riverine forests at elevations of 30 to 50 meters as a medium sized, hot greowing epiphyte with close set, slender, cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2, thin, narrowly elliptic, acute to acuminate, plicaet, 5 to 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and again in the late spring and early summer on a pendulous, straight to slightly fractiflex, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with persistent floral bracts and simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002;