Coelogyne leucantha W.W.Sm. 1921 SECTION Elatae Pfitzer

Photo by © Wang Wang "Xiaoyue" and Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The White Coelogyne - In China Bai Hua Bei Mu Lan

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southwestern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China, Laos, Vietnam and northern Myanmar in forests in trees or along valleys on rocks at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters as a cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] between each ovoid-oblong pseudobulb enveloped by basal sheaths and carrying 2, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute-apiculate, coriaceous, 9 nerved leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a hysteranthous, straight, slender, slightly zig zag, 7.2 to 13" [18 to 32.5 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence with imbricate bracts at the junction of peduncle and rachis and has deciduous floral bracts and carrying simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms Coelogyne leucantha var. heterophylla Tang & F.T.Wang 1951

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis Clayton 2002; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov1 , Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; Wulfenia 22 [2015]: 137 - 188 New Orchids in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nguyen, Tich, Nguyen, Nong, Nguyen and Xuan photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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