Coelogyne calcicola Kerr 1933 SECTION Elatae Pfitzer
Photo by © Piotr Markiewicz
Photo courtesy of David Banks
Common Name The Limestone-Living Coelogyne - In China Dian Xi Bei Mu Lan
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in northern Myanmar, Yunnan province of China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in lower montane forests among limestone at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 1.2 to 1.6" [3.2 to 3.8 cm]between each ovoid, angled pseudobulb enveloped basally by several persistent sheaths and carrying 2, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-obovate, somewhat acute, plicate, many nerved, minutely verrucose below, gradually narrowing below into the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, rigid, 8.8" [22 cm] long, to 6 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying 6 to 7, imbricate bracts covering the juncture of the peduncle and the rachis and has simultaneously opening, spreading flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 29 N.R. 4 Orchid Genera in Thailand III Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Oasis Vol 1 No 4 2000; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov1 , Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photos fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo fide to the first photo; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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