Coelogyne griffithii Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Elatae
Photo by © Ye Deping
TYPE Drawing by © Hooker in Icones 22 Hooker 1892
Drawing by © Engler and The Plant Illustrations.org Website
Common Name Griffith's Coelogyne [British Physician and Orchid Collector later 1800's] - in China Ge li bei mu lan
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Yunnan province of China, Assam, Sikkim and Myanmar in montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte on mossy rocks with an linear-oblong, compressed, sulcate pseudobulb enveloped by acuminate sheaths and carrying 2, apical, erect, coriaceous, plicate, 6 to 7 nerved, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a hysteranthous, slender, erect, glabrous, imbricating bracts at interface between peduncle and rachis, then fractiflex above, 6 to 14" [15 to 35 cm] long, successively single, 6 to 18 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Pleione griffithii (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 22 Hooker 1892 as drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Nagaland Deorani & Naithani 1995; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis Clayton 2002; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo ok/drawing fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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