Coelogyne pallens Ridl. 1903 SECTION Fuliginosae Lindl. Photo by © the Orchids of Malaya Website

Another Flower? Photo by © Elisabeth "Coelogyne" and her Flickr Photo Website

Another Flower Angle? Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

EARLY

Common Name The Pale Colored Coelogyne

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Borneo in hill ridge forests at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with [4 to 7 cm] between each pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, elliptic, acuminate,plicate, 5 nerved, grooved petiolate base leaves that blokms in the winter and early spring on a hysteranthous, slender, bare, 3" [7.5 cm] long, single [possibly more] flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by imbricating bracts

Synonyms Coelogyne fimbriata var. annamica Finet ex Gagnep. 1919

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide to the first photo; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Oasis Vol 1 No 3 2000 photo; The Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne, a Synopsis Clayton 2002 photo no = C ovalis

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