Coelogyne odoardoi Schltr. 1921 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer
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Photos by Art Vogel
Common Name Odoardo's Coelogyne [Italian Collector of species 1900's]
Flower Size to 2.8" [7 cm]
Found in Sarawak and Sabah Borneo on branches of canopy trees in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 200 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short to creeping rhizome with .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] between each ovoid, shallowly grooved pseduobulb carrying 2, apical, elliptic, coriaceous, plicate, 3 main nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a synanthous, curved to pendulous, to 14" [35 cm] long, 3 to 13 flowered inflorescence carrying simultaneously opening, strongly scented flowers with persistent floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 de Vogel 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; The Genus Coelogyne Clayton 2002 photo ?; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide
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