Coelogyne albobrunnea J.J.Sm. 1931 SECTION Rigidiformes Carr
Drawing by J J Smith and Kew Plants of the World Website
Collection Sheet by Yii Puan Ching and Kew Plants of the World Website
Common Name or Meaning The White & Brown Coleogyne [refers to the flower colors]
Flower Size 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm]
Found in Sarawak and Kalimantan Borneo in lower montane primary forests at elevations of 700 to 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphtye with ovoid, strongly longitudinally furrowed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, coriaceous, acute, 7 to 9 nerved, protruding, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, on a mature pseudobulb, erect, to [52 cm] long overall, peduncle provided with imbricate, long, sterile bracts at the base, peduncle to 9.6" [24 cm] long, zigzag, rachis to 11.2" [28 cm] long, zigzag, simultaneously 13 flowered inflorescence with elliptic-oblong, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with brown tepals and a white with pale ocher lip and a white column.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001; The Genus Coelogyne Clayton A synopsis 2002 drawing fide; Les Coelogynes Elisabeth & Jean Claude George 2011 drawing fide
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