Coelogyne viscosa Rchb. f. 1856 SECTION Flaccidae Lindl. Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Angle Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Richard Gautier and His Guadeloupe Orchid Page

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Common Name The Sticky Coelogyne - In China He Ye Bei Mu Lan

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in northeastern India, Burma, southern China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and penninsular Malaysia at elevations of 700 to 1000 meters in evergreen lowland forests and primary montane forests as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with clustered, narrow ovoid or fusiform, grooved, glossy pseudobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate, plicate, finely nerved, acute leaves with a tapering, grooved petiolate base and blooms on an erect, few [2 to 4] flowered, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, slender, very slightly fractiflex rachis, racemose inflorescence with deciduous floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers and arising from a newly developing pseudobulb in the winter. Some authors conclude that this and C graminifolia are the same species.

Synonyms Coelogyne graminifolia Rchb. f. 1874; Pleione graminifolia (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleione viscosa (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 as C graminifolia; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide/photo no; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 2 2004 photo; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok

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