Coelogyne lycastoides F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1895 SECTION Speciosae Lind. Photos by Jean Claude Geroge and His Orchidorama Web Page

Plant and Flower Photo by Copyright © Rogier Van Vugt and His PBase Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Lycaste-Like Coelogyne [refers to the plants habit]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa in lowland rain forests, open woodlands and cloud forests at elevations of 300 to 1550 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid-cylindric, obtusely 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 7 to 9 nerved, dark glossy green, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on a erect, 9.6 to 20" [24 to 50 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a fractiflex rachis arising with a new growth and has ovate-oblong, acute, persistent bracts and almost simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms Coelogyne whitmeei Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide

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