Coelogyne radicosa Ridl. 1915 SECTION Longifoliae Pfitzer
Another Color Photos By Peter O'Byrne ©.
Another Angle Photos by © Art Vogel
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Common Name The Many Rooted Coelogyne
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia and Borneo on mountain ridges and lower montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1900 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a swollen and somewhat flattened, basally slender, sulcate with age, pink, red to brown pseudobulb enveloped basally by loose sheaths and carrying 2, elliptic, acute, plicate, 9 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later winter and early spring on an erect, flat, bare, 16.4" [42 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, 10 to 30 flowered inflorescence arising as a new growth emerges with deciduous floral bracts and carrying successively opening flowers.
Synonyms Coelogyne carnea Hook.f. 1890;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1892 as C carnea drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as C carnea drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963 as C carnea; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as C carnea; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 29 N.R. 4 Orchid Genera in Thailand III Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 2 1987 as C carnea photo good; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 as Coelogyne carnea photos fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis Clayton 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #1 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo good; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide;
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