Coelogyne clemensii Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 SECTION Rigidiformes Carr Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name Clemens' Coelogyne [English Couple, Orchid Collectors Borneo 1900's, original collector of species]

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in hill, lower and upper montane mossy forests at elevations of 900 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slendre, pyriform to cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong to oblong, abruptly acuminate, erect, rigid, strongly plicate,7 nerved, coriaceous, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, deeply grooved, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 7" [17.5 cm] long, suberect, fractiflex rachis, loosely 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence arwsing on a mature speudobulb and has persistent floral bracts and simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers..

Synonyms Coelogyne clemensii var. angustifolia Carr 1935; Coelogyne clemensii var. clemensii; Coelogyne clemensii var. longiscapa Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002