Coelogyne lycastoides F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1895 SECTION Speciosae Lind. Photos courtesy of Jean Claude Geroge and His Orchidorama Web Page

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Common Name The Lycaste-Like Coelogyne [refers to the plants habit]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa in lowland rainforests, open woodlands and cloudforests at elevaations of 300 to 1550 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid-cylindric, obtusely 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 7 to 9 nerved, dark glossy green, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on a erect, 9.6 to 20" [24 to 50 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a fractiflex rachis arising witha new growth and has ovate-oblong, acute, persistent bracts and almost simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms Coelogyne whitmeei Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide;

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