Coelogyne corymbosa Lindl. 1853 SECTION Ocellatae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Umbrella-Like Coelogyne

Flower Size Up to 2 3/4" [to 7 cm]

A creeping, small sized, cold to cool growing, epiphytic species from Nepal, Bhutan, NE India, and China that is found at elevations of 1400 to 3000 meters with short, clustered, ovoid to subrhomboidal pseudobulbs envelopd basally by a few dark brown sheaths and carrying 2 apical, ellptic-lanceolate, suberect, plicate, 5 nerved, acute, gradually narrowing below in tothe elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves that blooms with a terminal, erect or pendant, basally sheathed, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a newly emerging pseusobulb growth has persistent floral bracts and with 2 to 5, simultaneously opening, fragrant, heavy textured flowers occuring in the summer and fall.

Synonyms Coelogyne taronensis Hand.-Mazz. 1922; Pleione corymbosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 11 1998 photo; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 4 2002 photo; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo

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