Coelogyne longifolia [Bl.]Lindl. 1830 SECTION Longifoliae Pfitzer TYPE for the section Photo by © Art Vogel

Another Flower Color Photo courtesy of Frankie Handoyo

Common Name The Long Leafed Coelogyne

Flower Size 1 2/5" [3.5 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Sumatra and Java in lower to upper montane forests at elevations of 1400 to 2100 meters as a large sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial orchid that easily becomes a specimen sized plant, with a thick creeping rhizome with 2" [5 cm] between each narrrowly conical, 4 angled, slightly compressed pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, lanceolate, plicate, 3 nerved underneath, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves and blooms in the summer and fall on an extending gradually to 26" [to 65 cm] long, zig-zag rachis, with several successively single flowered inflorescence arising on a immature pseudobulb but by blooming mature pseudobulb and carrying wide open flowers. Likes lots of light.

Synonyms *Chelonanthera longifolia Blume 1825; Cymbidium stenopetalum Reinw. ex Lindl. 1854; Pleione longifolia (Blume) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Genera Orchidaceaerum Volume 4 Epidendroideae Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb and Chase 2010; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide;

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