Coelogyne vanoverberghii Ames 1915 SECTION Lentiginosae Pfitzer Photo courtesy of David Banks

Common Name Vanoverbergh's Coleogyne [Belgian Missionary and Plant collector in the Philippines 1800's]

Flower Size 2.5" [6.2 cm]

Found in the Philippines on the island of Luzon at elevations around 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with crowded, tapering pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, plicate, broadly elliptic, acuminate, acute, leathery, shortly petiolate leaves that blooms on a slender, arcuate to pendant, to 8" [20 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, racemose to 6 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly emerging pseudobulb with deciduous floral bracts and simultaneously opening flowers. .

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003

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