Coelogyne longipes Lindl. 1854 SECTION Proliferae Lindley

Plant and Flower Photos by © Supindham T. and the Doonokthai Website

Common Name The Long Stemmed Coelogyne - In China Chang Bing Bei Mu Lan

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand and Laos in upper montane forest on mossy branches at elevations of 1300 to 2300 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] between each long, slender, cylindrical to narrowly ovoid, pseudobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 5 to 7 nerved, dorsal prominent, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on a hysteranthous, bare, slender, 4.8 to 8" [12 to 20 cm] long, imbricating bracts at the junction of the peduncle and rachis, slightly zigzag, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with deciduous floral bracts and successive opening flowers. The inflorescence can rebloom over several seasons by elongating at the imbricating bracts.

CAUTION; My reference below is dead on for this species but Pearce & Cribb Orchids of Bhutan have this species in a photo as C schultesii. So see C schultesii for more information

Synonyms Pleione longipes (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; 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; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok

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