Coelogyne calcicola Kerr 1933 SECTION Elatae Pfitzer Photo courtesy of David Banks

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Common Name The Limestone-Living Coelogyne

Flower Size 2.2" [5.5 cm]

Found in Upper Burma, Yunnan China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in lower montane forests among limestone at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 1.2 to 1.6" between each ovoid, angled pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several persistent sheaths and carrying 2, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-obovate, somewhat acute, plicate, many nerved, minutely verrucose below, gradually narrowing belowin to the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, rigid, 8.8" [22 cm] long, to 6 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseduobulb and carrying 6 to 7 imbricate bracts covering the juncture of the peduncle and the rachis and has simultaneoulsy opening, spreading flowers

Synonyms

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

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