Coelogyne exalata Ridl. 1908 SECTION Rigidiformes Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name The Small Coelogyne [refers to the size of the pseudobulbs]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Borneo in hill, lower and upper montane forests on ridges at elevations of 600 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial in open scrub with close set, subglabrous, rounded pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical lanceolate, acuminate-mucronate, coriaceous, plicate, 7 nerved, gradually narrowing into the smooth, round petiolate, base leaf and blooms in the spring on a erect, stiff, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with persistent floral bracts and successive opening flowers..

Synonyms Coelogyne subintegra J.J.Sm. 1909

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