Coelogyne planiscapa Carr 1935 SECTION Longifoliae Pfitzer
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Photo courtesy of Peter Maxwell
Photo by © Art Vogel
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Common Name The Flat Scape Coelogyne
Flower Size [2" [5 cm]
Found in Sabah in northern Borneo in lower and upper montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphtye, terrestrial or lithophyte with 1.2" [3 cm] between each, elongate-ovoid, slightly compressed, ribbed pseudobulb enveloped initially by a few fleshy, tubular sheaths and carrying 2, apical, linear-lanceolate, acute, rigid, leathery, plicate, 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an elongate, stout, strongly flattened, and narrowly winged, narrowly ellitpic in cross-section, 16" [40 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, many flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying successively opening, wide spreading flowers
Synonyms Coelogyne planiscapa var. grandis Carr 1935
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; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beaman Etal 2001; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo ok; 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; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide;
Coelogyne planiscapa var. grandis Carr 1935
Photos by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page
Differs in it's larger plant size.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994
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