Coelogyne quadratiloba Gagnep. 1950 SECTION Flaccida Drawing by Seidenfaden © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Four Lobed Coelogyne [refers to the lobes of the lip]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the Andaman Islands, Thailand and Vietnam in evergreen hill forests near streams at elevations of 400 to 700 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, 4 angled, yellowish green pseudobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate, acute-acuminate, 7 major nerved, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a hysteranthous, peduncle slender, nearly totally enveloped by sheathing bracts, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, rachis slender, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, simultaneously 3 flowered inflorescence with deciduous floral bracts and flowers with trasnsparent white sepals, the lip white with brown margins on the side lobes and an inverted y-shaped marking on the mid lobe, a yellow column with an orange stripe at the base of the lip..

Synonyms Coelogyne thailandica Seidenf. 1975

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 29 N.R. 4 Orchid Genera in Thailand III Seidenfaden 1975 as C thailandica drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Thailand 2 Vaddhanaphuti 2009 photo ok; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide;

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