Coelogyne tenasserimensis Seidenf. 1975 SECTION Elatae Pfitzer Photo by © Kitisak “Nat” Jaidee Orchid Flower.com Website

Common Name The Tenasserim Coelogyne {a Region of Thailand]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam in shady areas of dry evergreen forests at elevations of 600 to 850 meters as a small sized, ho to warm growing epiphyte with 1.2" 3 cm] between each, ovoid, glossy pseudobulb and carrying 2, apical, erect, fleshy, plicate, porominent mid-nerve, 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a hysteranthous, erect, slender, bare at the base, 2.4 to 4.8" [6 to 12 cm] long, 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with a few imbricate bracts at the junction of peduncle and rachis, deciduous floral bracts and simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide;

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