Coelogyne virescens Rolfe 1908 SECTION Brachypterae D.A.Clayton Photo by Orchid Website

Another Flower Photo by Jean Claude George

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Common Name The Greenish Coelogyne

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.75 cm]

Found in northern Thailand and Vietnam in deciduous forests at elevations of 200 to 350 meters as a just medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with 1" [2.5 cm] betweeen each, very narrowly conical, 4 angled, slightly grooved, pale green pseudobulb enveloped basally by a few scarious bracts and carrying 2, elliptic, subacute, undulate margin, plicate, 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect to arcuate, 4" [10 cm] long, racemose, to 5 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Coelogyne brachyptera Rchb. f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 photo fide

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