Coelogyne stricta (D. Don) Schltr. 1919 SECTION Elatae Pfitzer

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

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Common Name The Rigid Coelogyne - In China Shuang Zhe Bei Mu Lan

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, upper Myanamar, China and Vietnam in lower and upper, primary montane forests on steep riverbank slopes on broadleafed trees as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters with 2" [5 cm] between each, oblong-cylindrical, glossy green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few imbricate sheaths and carrying 2, apical, elliptic-oblong, acute, coriaceous, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaves leaves and blooms in the winter on an erect, 16" [40 cm] long, 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and enveloped by imbricate sheaths at the juncture of the peduncel and rachis, all carrying simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers occuring in the spring.

Piotr Markiewicz's photo is a dead ringer for the photos in Clayton's The Genus Coelogyne and Pearce and Cribb's Orchids of Bhutan. Alex Petrzelka's photo does not match any reference that I can find but he is supported by Leiden University and they have a good ID crew.

Synonyms Coelogyne elata Lindl. 1830; *Cymbidium strictum D. Don 1825; Pleione elata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as C elata; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as C elata drawing fide to the first photo; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as C elata; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 as C elata; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C elata; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978 as C elata; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo as C elata; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide 1st photo only; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 2 2004 photo; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos not

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