Coelogyne schultesii S.K.Gen & S.Das 1978 SECTION Proliferae Lindley Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids Home Page

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Common Name or Meaning Schultes' Coelogyne [American Botanist at Harvard Current]

Flower Size Up to 1 1/4" [3 cm]

This one is found in evergreen and semideciduous cloud forests on open rocks and tree bases as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte. at 500 - 2000 m alt. in a wide area from Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, to South China and Vietnam, with a stout creeping rhizome giving rise to ovoid to ellipsoid, irregularly ridged and furrowed, green pseudobulbs with basal sheathing and carrying 2, apical, oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 7 veined, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring on a hysteranthous, erect t ocurved, 4 to 9 flowered, green to geenish brown, 2 to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, racemose, weakly fractiflex inflorescence with overlapping glume-like sheaths. Named after Prof. Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard Univ.

Synonyms Coelogyne flavida sensu Seidenf. 1975, non Hook. f. ex Lindl.; Coelogyne longipes var. verruculata S.C.Chen 1983; Coelogyne prolifera sensu Lindl. 1854, non Lindl. 1830

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007