Coelogyne fragrans Schltr. 1911 SECTION Speciosae Lindley

Lip DetailPhoto by Marius Wasbauer

Plant ensitu in New Guinea Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name The Fragrant Coelogyne

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea in lower montane forests on trees in forests at elevations of 100 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with 3/4" to 1 1/4" [2 to 3 cm] between each narrowly ovoid, longitudinally 4 ridged pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, plicate, erect, ellitpic, acuminate, petiolate leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on a glabrous, laxly 2 to 4 flowered, racemose, 8" [20 cm] long inflorescence arising with a new pseudobulb and leaf growth [synanthous] with simultaneous to successive opening, very fragrant flowers .

Synonyms Coelogyne rumphii Ridley 1886

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002