Coelogyne nervosa A.Rich. 1841 SECTION Coelogyne Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Plant and Inflorescence Photos by Art Vogel ©
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Common Name The Nerved Coelogyne [refers to the pattern on the lip and side lobes]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in southwestern India and Myanmar in lower and upper montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with close set, angled, broadly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, narrowly elliptic, acute, slightly undulate, plicate, 9 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaves that blooms on a erect, loosely 7 to 12 flowered, 6" [15 cm] long, fractiflex rachis inflorescence that arises from the center of a newly emerging growth with persisitent floral bracts and carries simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers occuring in the summer and fall.
Synonyms Coelogyne corrugata Wight 1851; Pleione corrugata (Wight) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as C corrugata drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 as C corrugata drawing fide; AOS Bulletin VOl 32 No 5 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 drawing good; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 as C corrugata drawing fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #7 2019 drawing fide;
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