Coelogyne chloroptera Rchb. f. 1883 section Lentiginosae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin

Another View Photo courtesy of Dorothy Potter Barnett .

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by OrchidMania.

Common Name The Green Winged Coelogune

Flower Size 1 3/4" [4 cm]

Text by Villamor T. Usita Coelogyne chloroptera is a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphitic or occasional lithophytic orchid found at altitudes of 800 to 1,700 meters You should keep the root always moist. Sunlight is about 40 - 60%. It has been mistakenly identified as Coelogyne confusa before. It is found in the Nueva Vizcaya region in Luzon, Philippines on trees and rocks with pear shaped pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, plicate,7 nerved, coriaceous, gradually narrows below into the base leaves and blooms on an erect to arching, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, loosely 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence with quickly sequential, waxy, fragrant flowers occuring in the spring.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003