Coelogyne remediosae Ames & Quisumb. 1932 SECTION Longifoliae Pfitzer Photo by Gary Yong Gee, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning Remedios Coelogyne [Female Philippine Orchid Enthusiast mid 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the Philippines at mid to high elevations as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped by obtuse, membraneous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, plicate, elliptic-oblong, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect to arcuate, 9.2 to 12.4" [23 to 31 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising on a newly emerging growth with successive flowering, odorless flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 drawing/photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide;

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