Coelogyne contractipetala J.J.Sm. 1932 SECTION Longifoliae
Plant and Flower Photos by © Mr. A. Rahmady and The Wild Orchids of Sumatra Website
TYPE Drawing Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Contracted Petal Coelogyne
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in western Sumatra in lower mintane forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome with 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] between each flask shaped, at an acute angle to the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, thin, narrowly lanceolate, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising with the leaves, rachis to 13.2" [33 cm] long, 18 to 23.8" [45 to 59 cm] long overall, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J J Comber 2001; The Genus Coelogyne, a Synopsis Clayton 2002; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide;
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