Coelogyne holochila P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1966SECTION Elatae Pfitzer Photos courtesy of The Botanical Survey OF India

Common Name The Almost Entire Lip Coelogyne

Flower Size 2" + [5cm+]

Found in Nepal, Bhutan, NE India, Upper Burma and Yunnan China in lower and upper montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters as a mendium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte on mossy rocks with 1.7" to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] between each erect, oblong-cylindric, obtusely angled, narrowly grooved pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by soon evanescent sheaths and carrying 2, apical, oblanceolate, acute to slightly acuminate, coriaceous, slightly undulate margins, plicate, 7 nerved, gradually anrrowing below intothe slender, grooved, ekongate petillate bse leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, bare, imbricate bracts at junction of peduncle and rachis, [16" [40 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising with a newly emerging leaves with deciduous floral bracts and simultaneously opening; long-lasting, fragrant flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002;