Coelogyne flaccida Lindl. 1828 SECTION Flaccidae Lindl. Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Plant and inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Banks - Australia copyrighted © 
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Common Name or Meaning The Loose Coelogyne
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
A very rewarding, medium sized, cold to cool growing species hailing from Nepal, northern India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Laos and southern China at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters in rain forests, lower and upper montane forests with close set, conical, lightly grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 3 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves. It produces pendulous 10" [25 cm] long, somewhat fractiflex rachis, loosely few to many [5 to 12] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with deciduous floral bracts and waxy, highly perfumed [not so good], cream coloured, simultaneously opening flowers, each reaching about 2" [4-5 cm] across, occuring in the summer.
Synonyms Coelogyne huettneriana Auct. non Rchb.f; Coelogyne huettneriana Rchb.f var lactea [Rchb.f]Pfitz. 1907; Coelogyne lactea Rchb.f 1885; Pleione flaccida (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleione lactea (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as C lactea; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002
