Coelogyne marmorata Rchb. f. 1877 section Lentiginosae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens

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Common Name The Marbled Coelogyne refers to the marbled side lobes of the lip

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the Philippins as a medium sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte at elevations above 1000 meters with crowded, tapering, elongate pseudobulbs enveloped by several, dry, membraneous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, oblong-lanceolate, petiolate base leaves that are enveloped by closely overlapping sheaths that blooms in the spring on an arching, slender, 3 to 6 flowered, 6" long inflorescence arising on a new growth with a few [5] fragrant waxy flowers.

Synonyms Coelogyne zahlbrucknerae Kraenzl 1921.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003