Coelogyne rhabdobulbon Schltr. 1921 SECTION Tomentosae
Plant and Flowers in situ Borneo Photos by Copyright © Peter Maxwell and HisFlickr Orchid Photo Website
Inflorescence ? Photo by Copyright © Kenth Esbensen and His Carphunters Website
Common Name The Staff Shaped Pseuddobulb Coelogyne
Flower Size 2.2" [5.6 cm]
Found in Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at the base of tree trunks and on the rocks below at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and lithophyte with close set, slender, spindle-shaped to long cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2, long-obovate to long-elliptic, acute, plicate, 5 to 9 nerved leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a synanthous, limply pendulous, straight to slightly fractiflex, 6.4" to 25.2" [16 to 63 cm] long, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence arising through a new growth with persistent floral bracts a sparsely pubescent ovary and carrying simultaneously opening flowers that have been reported to have a scent similar to chocolate or to somethmes quite unpleasant.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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