Coelogyne mayeriana Rchb. f. 1877 SECTION Verrucosae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin.

Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name Mayer's Coelogyne [German Botanical Garden Director, Stutgart 1800's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Similar to C. pandurata yet smaller flowers and a different non-pandurate, deeply ruffled lip with hard white warts, this species occurs in Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte on tree trunks or occasional terrestrial in humus at elevations of sealevel to 100 meters often near mangroves with 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] between each pyriform, circular to very slightly flattened in cross-section pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few imbricate sheaths and carrying 2, apical, plicate, 7 nerved, acute, gradually narrowing below into the grooved petiolate base leaves leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an arching to pendant, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, proteranthous inflorescence with many fragrant, simultaneously opening flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004