Coelogyne brachygyne J.J.Sm. 1920 SECTION Longifoliae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin

Plant ensitu in Sumatra Photos By Peter O'Byrne ©.

Common Name The Short Column Coelogyne

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Sumatra in lower montane forests at elevations of 1250 to 1850 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with close set, elongate pseudobulbs carrying 2, erect, oblong-lanceolate to obovate-oblong, acute-acuminate, plicate, 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 34" [to 85 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, many flowered inflorescence arsing on a newly emerging growth with successively opening flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002