Coelogyne flaccida Lindl. 1828 SECTION Flaccidae Lindl Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Plant and inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Banks - Australia copyrighted © 
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Common Name or Meaning The Loose Coelogyne
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
A very rewarding, medium sized, cold to cool growing species hailing from Nepal, northern India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Laos and southern China at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters in rain forests, lower and upper montane forests with close set, conical, lightly grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 3 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves. It produces basal, slender, pendulous 10" [25 cm] long, somewhat fractiflex rachis, loosely few to many [5 to 12] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with deciduous floral bracts and waxy, highly perfumed [not so good], cream coloured, simultaneously opening flowers, each reaching about 2" [4-5 cm] across, occuring in the summer.
Synonyms Coelogyne huettneriana Auct. non Rchb.f; Coelogyne huettneriana Rchb.f var lactea [Rchb.f]Pfitz. 1907; Coelogyne lactea Rchb.f 1885; Pleione flaccida (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleione lactea (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as C lactea; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1958 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003 as C lactea; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 2 2004 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004 as C lactea;
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