Coelogyne cumingii Lindley 1843 SECTION Coelogyne

Lip Detail Photos courtesy of © Peter O'Byrne.

Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photo by © David Kuehn.

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Common Name or Meaning Cuming's Coelogyne [English Orchid Collector, the Philippines 1800's]

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]

This species is from Thailand, the Malaysian penisula, Sumatra and Borneo in lowlands and lower montane forests at elevations of 900 to 2150 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte and sometime lithophyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to ovate, weakly angled, acuminate pseudobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate, acuminate, glossy, plicate, 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved petillate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect to arcuate, 6" [15 cm] long, slender, 3 to 5 flowered, racemose inflorescence with fragrant, long-lasting flowers arising out of the center of a newly emerging psuedobulb.

Synonyms Coelogyne casta Ridl. 1897; Coelogyne longibracteata Hook.f. 1890; Pleione cumingii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleione longibracteata (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891

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