Coelogyne fuerstenbergiana Schltr. 1914 SECTION Speciosae Lind. Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name Fuerstenburg's Coelogyne [German Orchid Enthusiast late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size 3.6" [9 cm]

Found in Sumatra on a stout woody rhizome with at intervals, erect, ovoid, smooth, 4 angled pseudobulbs enveloped basally by sheaths in youth and carrying 2, erect, lanceolate, acute, plicate, 7 to 9 nerved, gradualy narrowing below into the petilate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, short, synanthous, arising with partially to entirely developed leaves, successively few flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 drawing; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis Clayton 2002 photo

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