Coelogyne tomentosa Lindl. 1853 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer
Lip Detail Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Plant and Inflorescence Photo courtesy of D E Vermeulen
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VARIABLE MOSTLY 
Common Name The Hairy Coelogyne [refers to the pubescent ovary]
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
This species is from the mountain regions of Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java in river valleys at elevations of 1150 to 2100 meters and in montane forests on higher ridges as a warm to cool growing plant with elongate-conical, somewhat angled pseudobulbs when young and turning yellowish green and wrinkled with age carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic-obovate, long petiolate leaf that is variable in its flowering but most often occuring in the summer. The flowers are scented and are short lasting and delicate on a terminal, to more than 15" [37.5 cm] long, pendant, racemose inflorescence arising with a new pseudobulb and leaf with a zig zag rachis and short bracts that has from 20 to 30 flowers. This species is often marketed as C massangeana.
Synonyms Coelogyne cymbidioides Ridl. 1908; Coelogyne dayana [Rchb.f]Rolfe var massangeana Ridley; Coelogyne densiflora Ridley 1903; Coelogyne massangeana Rchb.f. 1878; Coelogyne tomentosa Lindley var cymbidioides Ridley; Coelogyne tomentosa Lindley var massangeana Ridley; Pleione massangeana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze, 1891; Pleione tomentosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905 as C massangeana; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 drawing as C massangeana; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 Drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 photo as C massangeana; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 6 1986 photo as C massangeana; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Oasis Vol 1 No 3 2000 photo as C massangeana; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000 as C massangeana; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 2 2004 photo;
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