Coelogyne sparsa Rchb.f. 1883 SECTION Lentiginosae Pfitzer Photos by © Amos Tan and his Asiatic Green Website

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Common Name The Sparse Coelogyne [refers to the widely spaced flowers on the inflorescence]

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in the Philippines on trees in lower montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1100 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyyte with obovoid to narrowly obovoid, often curved, grooved with age pseudobulbs carrying 2, oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrwowing below into the short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a heteranthous, arching, not zig-zagged, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, loosely 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence enveloped from the base to the rachis by bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1890 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Genus Coelogyne A synopsis Clayton 2001;

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