Coelogyne fuscescens Lindl. 1828 SECTION Fuscescentes Pfitzer & Kraenzlin Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Carl Withner.
Common Name The Ocher Yellow Coelogyne - In China He Chun Bei Mu Lan
Flower Size 1 3/8" to 2.4" [3.5 to 6 cm]
Found in Nepal, India, Sikkim, Bhutan, lower Burma, China and NE Thailand on mossy branches in damp, shady hill forests and lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 2100 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing, creeping epiphyte with erect, clustered, cylindric-fusiform, deeply grooved with age pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acute, plicate, 6 nerved, gradually narrowing below in to the short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect to suberect, 6 3/8" [16 cm] long, slightly fractiflex rachis, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising with a newly emerging pseudobulb growth that is subtended by 4 to 5 short, imbricating sheaths and has deciduous floral bracts and simultaneously opening flowers. There is a var. brunnea [Lindley] Lindley that differs from the norm by having a brown-marked lip with an acute midlobe and occurs in Thailand, Burma, Laos and Vietnam, a var integrilabia has almost no side lobes to the lip and is most likely pink, and a var viridiflora that differs by having smaller to 2" [5 cm] green flowers.
Synonyms Coelogyne brunnea Lindl. 1848; Coelogyne fuscescens var. brunnea (Lindl.) Lindl. 1854; Coelogyne fuscescens var. integrilabia Pfitzer 1907; Coelogyne fuscescens var. viridiflorum Pradhan 1979; Coelogyne integrilabia (Pfitzer) Schltr. 1915; Pleione cycnoches (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleione fuscescens (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Coelogyne fuscescens var. brunnea (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1861
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Flower Size 1.3" to 1.5" [3.1 cm to 3.75 cm]
Common Name The Ocher Yellow Coelogyne Brown Variety
Found in northeastern India, Lower Burma, China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in evergreen hill forests and shady valleys at elevations of 900 to 1200 meters medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, clustered, cylindric-fusiform, deeply grooved with age pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acute, plicate, 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below in to the grooved petiolate base leaves and blooms in the fall and winter erect to suberect, 8" [20 cm] long, erect becoming slender, slightly fractiflex rachis, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence arising with a newly emerging pseudobulb growth that is subtended by 4 to 5 short, imbricating sheaths and has decduous floral bracts and successively opening flowers.
Synonyms Coelogyne brunnea Lindl. 1848; Coelogyne cycnoches C.S.P Parish & Rchb.f. 1874
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007
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