Coelogyne kaliana P.J. Cribb 1982 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer Photo courtesy of Vortex Orchids

Lip Detail Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name or Meaning The Kali Coelogyne [A Malaysian Town]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in the pennisular Malaysia in motane forests on shrubs, tree trunks and large branches at elevations of 1650 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or occasional terrestrial on moss with close set, ovoid, distinctly 3 ridged pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, coriaceous, plicate, 7 to 9 nerved, gradually narrowing below intot he petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a hertanthous, arching to pendulous, slightly fractiflex, 3.2 to 12" [8 to 30 cm] long, 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence arsing ona mature pseudobulb and has persistent floral bracts and with simultaneously opening flowers..

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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