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 ; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002