Coelogyne incrassata (Blume) Lindl. 1830 section Moniliformis Carr.

Plant Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Common Name The Swollen Coelogyne [refers to the swollen rachis]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Java, Sumatra and Borneo in lowlands and lower montane mossy forests at elevations of sealevel to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with smooth obtuse-angled, gradually narrowing above to the apex pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, erect, copper to green, oblong-elliptic, sharply acuminate, abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf and blooms on a erect then pendulous, 6.4 to 7" [16 to 17.5 cm] long, dull brown, thickened rachis, few to several successively flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Chelonanthera incrassata Blume 1825; Coelogyne incrassata var. incrassata; Coelogyne incrassata var. sumatrana J.J.Sm. 1914; Coelogyne incrassata var. valida J.J.Sm. 1930; Pleione incrassata (Blume) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002;