Coelogyne muluensis J.J.Wood 1984 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer

Plant and Flowers in situ Borneo Photos by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning The Mulu Coelogyne [A mountain in Sarawak Borneo]

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Sarawak Borneo in lowland tropical heath forests on slender trees and saplings at elevations of sealevel to 150 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, oblong-cylindric pseudobulbs enveloped below by multiple large sheaths and carrying 2, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, plicate, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the channelled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a heteranthous, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, slender, arcuate, successively 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with the peduncle enveloped completely by loosely imbricating bracts and with persistent floral bracts with the apical flowers opening first

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beaman Etal 2001 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis Clayton 2002 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 drawing good; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 20 2017 photo fide;

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