Coelogyne longibulbosa Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920 SECTION Tomentosae

Inflorescence Photos by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Long-Bulbed Coelogyne

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Sarawak Borneo in lower and hill montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1900 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte on river boulders with 1.2 to 3" [3 to 7.5 cm] between each, very slender, cylindric pseudobulbs carrying2, apical, narrowly elliptic, acute, plicate, 3 to 7 nerved, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through winter on a synanthous, rarely proteranthus, limply pendulous, [4 to 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, 16 to 25 flowered inflorescence with persistent floral bracts and simultaneoulsy opening flowers.

Synonyms

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

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