Coelogyne nervosa A.Rich. 1841 SECTION Coelogyne Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower

Plant and Inflorescence Photos by Art Vogel ©

FragrancePart shadeCool TO WarmSummerFall

Common Name The Nerved Coelogyne [refers tothe pattern on the lip and side lobes]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in SW India and Myanamar in lower and upper montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with close set, angled, broadly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, narrowly elliptic, acute, slightly undulate, plicate, 9 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaves that blooms on a erect, loosely 7 to 12 flowered, 6" [15 cm] long, fractiflex rachis inflorescence that arises from the center of a newly emerging growth carries persisitent floral bracts and simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers occuring in the summer and fall.

Synonyms Coelogyne corrugata Wight 1851; Pleione corrugata (Wight) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 darwing; AOS Bulletin VOl 32 No 5 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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