Coelogyne obtusifolia Carr 1935 SECTION Hologyne D.A.Clayton.

Collection Sheet by Carr/Ames

Common Name or Meaning The Obtuse Leaf Coelogyne

Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]

Found in Sabah, Borneo in lower montane and hill forests at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, narrowly obtuse, distinctly obtuse, thin textured, midvein prominent, elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a newly arising pseudobulb, to 3.8" [9.5 cm] long, peduncle 1.6" [4.5 cm] long, simultaneously 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, cadaceous floral bracts carrying flowers with transparent yellow tinted pale salmon tepals, a pale salmon lip with a white midlobe, and the converging keels pale salmon and a brown colum with a red brown anther.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Les Coelogynes Elizabeth & Claude George 2011 collection sheet fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 collection sheet fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011;

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