Coelogyne ustulata Parish & Rchb. f. 1874 SECTION Proliferae Lindley Photo not available .

Common Name The Burned Red Coelogyne [refers to the dark colored floral parts]

Flower Size 3/4" or less [to 2 cm]

Found only in Lower Burma in lower montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, plicate, 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the grooved, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, erect, fractiflex rachis, 3.2" [8 cm] long, 5 flowered inflorescence arsing on a mature pseudobulb with several imbricate bracts at the juncture of the peduncle and rachis and all carrying simultaneously opening flowers. Many plants under this name are actually C usitana which are white flowers with a dark purple lip, actual C ustulata flowers are very small, yellow and brown.

Synonyms Pleione ustulata (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002