Coelogyne fuliginosa Lodd. ex Hook. 1849 SECTION Fuliginosae Lindl. Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Bob Worley

Common Name The Sooty Coelogyne [refers to the flower color]

Flower Size 2" [4 to 5 cm]

Found in the Himalayas, Myanamar and Java and Sumatra in valleys on trees and rocks at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] between each, narrowly oblong and angular pseudobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate, acute, plicate, 9 nerved, gradually narrwoing below into the grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a longer than the leaf slender, 3" [7.5 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising from a mature pseudobulb and leaf and carrying simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms Pleione fuliginosa (Lodd. ex Hook.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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