Coelogyne lentiginosa Lindl. 1852 SECTION Lentiginosae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin TYPE for the section Photo by Tony Watkinson Copyright ©

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Common Name The Freckled Coelogne

Flower Size 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in evergreen and in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ellipsoid, cylindrical, narrow or ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 elliptic to oblanceolate, narrow, arched to suberect, petiolate, plicate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a erect, 2.4" to 6.4" [6 to 16 cm] long, few [4 to 5] flowered inflorescence arising with a newly emerging pseudobulb carrying persistent floral bracts and simutaneously opening, fragrant flowers .

Synonyms Pleione lentiginosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 NO 5 1963; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; 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 good; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing good/photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanmar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Genera Orchidaceaerum Volume 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb and Chase 2010; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Taunggyi 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #7 2019 drawing fide;

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