Coelogyne asperata Lindl. 1849 SECTION Verrucosae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin

Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

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Common Name possibly refers to the rough surface of the lip

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, the Philippines, Papua and New Guinea, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands in swamp forests at elevations of sea-level to 1600 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic or sometimes lithophytic species in primary forests near rivers and streams with somewhat compressed, ribbed, broadly conical pseudobulbs carrying oblanceolate, long-petiolate, plicate leaves that blooms in the late winter, spring and summer on a terminal, arching, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, crowded proteranthous inflorescence with ovate, large, dry, concave floral bracts and has 15 to 40, short-lived, fragrant, heavy textured, waxy flowers arising from the apex of a new growth.

Synonyms Coelogyne edelfeldtii F. Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894; Coelogyne lourii Paxton 1849; Coelogyne lowii Paxton 1849; Coelogyne macrophylla Teijsm. & Binn. 1867; Coelogne pustulosa Ridley 1886; Cymbidium robustum Gilli 1980 publ. 1983; Pleione asperata (Lindl.) Kuntze. 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 5 Ames 1915; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as Coelogne pustulosa drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 2 Quisumbing 1981 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 drawing okish hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 2 1987 photo fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 1 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Living with Orchids in Sumatra Landau 1996 photo fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Wood, Beaman Etal 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006; ; Orchid Digest Vol 72 #2 2008 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 photo fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/photo good; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide

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