Coelogyne hirtella J.J. Sm. 1931 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer Photo courtesy of Peter Maxwell

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Common Name The Bristley Coelogyne [refers to the hairs occuring on the leaves, petiole and inflorescence]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Brunei, Kalamatan and Sabah, Borneo in dense open heath and moss forests at elevations of 800 to 2350 as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with a stout rhizome carrying close set, ovoid, grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, stiff, lanceolate to linear, plicate, 5 to 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below intothe elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on a proteranthous to synanthous, stiff, erect and curved, 2.8" to 7.2" [7 to 18 cm] long, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with widely spread, successively opening flowers with 2 open at any one time. .

Synonyms Coelogyne radiosa J.J.Sm. 1931

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarwak Beaman & Wood 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002;

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