Coelogyne virescens Rolfe 1908 SECTION Brachypterae D.A.Clayton Photo by Orchid Website
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George
Common Name The Greenish Coelogyne
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.75 cm]
Found in northern Thailand and Vietnam in deciduous forests at elevations of 200 to 350 meters as a just medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with 1" [2.5 cm] betweeen each, very narrowly conical, 4 angled, slightly grooved, pale green pseudobulbs enveloped basall by a few scarious bracts and carrying 2, elliptic, subacute, undulate margin, plicate, 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below ijnto the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect to arcuate, 4" [10 cm] long, racemose, to 5 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carries simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Coelogyne brachyptera Rchb. f. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing, photo fide; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide;
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