Coelogyne flexuosa Rolfe 1892 SECTION Ptychogyne (Pfitzer & Kraenzlin) D.A.Clayton Photo by Bill, Jan, Craig & Molly Miles and their Orchid Species Plus Website

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids Home Page

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Common Name The Bent Raceme Coelogyne

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Bali and Java in lower montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters high up on isolated tree trunks and branches in bright light as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid, ridged pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, acute, margins slightly undulate, plicate, 9 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, 15" [37.5 cm] long, several [15] flowered, flexuous inflorescence which arise from a mature psuedobulb with a fractiflex rachis in the spring and early summer with the sweetly fragrant flowers opening simultaneously but not opening fully.

Synonyms Coelogyne bimaculata Ridl 1896; Ptychogyne bimaculata (Ridl.) Pfitzer 1907; Ptychogyne flexuosa (Rolfe) Pfitzer 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002

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