Coelogyne flaccida Lindl. 1830 SECTION Flaccidae Lindl TYPE for the section
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo by David Banks - Australia copyrighted ©
Common Name or Meaning The Loose Coelogyne - In China Li Lin Bei Mu Lan
Flower Size 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm]
Found in Nepal, northern India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Laos and southern China at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters in rain forests, lower and upper montane forests as a very rewarding, medium sized, warm to cool growing species with close set, conical, lightly grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 3 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves. It produces basal, slender, pendulous 10" [25 cm] long, somewhat fractiflex rachis, loosely few to many [5 to 12] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with deciduous floral bracts and waxy, highly perfumed [not so good], cream coloured, simultaneously opening flowers, each reaching about 2" [4-5 cm] across, occuring in the summer.
Synonyms Coelogyne esquirolii Schltr. 1919; Coelogyne flaccida var. longiracemosa Roeth 2006; Coelogyne huettneriana Auct. non Rchb.f; Pleione flaccida (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as C lactea; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo good; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1958 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 corrections drawing fide; AOS Bulletin VOl 32 No 5 1963 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 29 N.R. 4 Orchid Genera in Thailand III Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 drawing ok/photo ok; Orchids of Arunachal Pradesh Hegde 1984 photo ok; Orchids of North West Himalaya Deva & Naithanis 1986 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Nagaland Deorani & Naithani 1995 drawing ok; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 as C lactea photo good; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 as C esquirolei; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003 as C lactea; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 2 2004 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004 as C lactea; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo ok; ; Orchid Digest Vol 72 #2 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 8 2009 photo fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; 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; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Genera Orchidaceaerum Volume 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb and Chase 2010; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 ; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #3 2014 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo ok?; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #12 2015 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 excluded taxa; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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