Coelogyne lentiginosa Lindl. 1852 SECTION Lentiginosae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin Photo courtesy of Tony Watkinson Copyright © To

Common Name The Freckled Coelogne

Flower Size 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam in evergreen and in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ellipsoid, cylindrical, narrow or ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 elliptic to oblanceolate, narrow, arched to suberect, petiolate, plicate, acutegradually narrowing below into the grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a erect, 2 2/5" to 6 2/5" [6 to 16 cm] long, few [4 to 5] flowered inflorescence arsing with a newly emerging pseudobulb carrying persistent floral bracts and simutaneously opening, fragrant flowers .

Synonyms Pleione lentiginosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 NO 5 1963; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004;

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