Coelogyne cumingii Lindley 1843 SECTION Coelogyne
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne.
Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia
Photo by © David Kuehn.
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Common Name or Meaning Cuming's Coelogyne [English Orchid Collector, the Philippines 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
This species is from Thailand, the Malaysian penisula, Sumatra and Borneo in lowlands and lower primary and secondary montane forests at elevations of 300 to 2150 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and sometime lithophyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise every 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm], to ovate, weakly angled, acuminate pseudobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate, acuminate, glossy, plicate, 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, erect to arcuate, 6" [15 cm] long, slender, 3 to 5 flowered, racemose inflorescence with fragrant, long-lasting flowers arising out of the center of a newly emerging pseudobulb.
Synonyms Coelogyne casta Ridl. 1897; Coelogyne longibracteata Hook.f. 1890; Pleione cumingii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleione longibracteata (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as C longibracteata drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing hmm; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as C longibracteata; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 Drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 photo ok; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 29 N.R. 4 Orchid Genera in Thailand III Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as C longibracteata drawing fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Wood, Beaman Etal 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 1 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 8 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/photo good but with 3 calli not 5; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo ok
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