Coelogyne rupicola Carr 1935 SECTION Tomentosae

Plant and Flowers in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo

Photos by Copyright © Rogier Van Vugt and His PBase Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Rupicolus Coelogyne (refers to its growing on rocks)

Flower Size 2.2" [5.6 cm]

Found in Borneo in lower montane forests and in upper montane scrub primarily growing on rocks at elevations of 1500 to 2900 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte, terrestrial and lithophyte with close set to 1.2" [3 cm] apart, ovoid to slender fusiform, grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2, narrowly-obovate to slender-elliptic, acute, plicate, herbaceous to hard coriaceous, 3 to 9 nerved leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a synanthous, erect to curved, fractiflex, 14" to 20" [35 to 50 cm] long, 5 to 9 flowered inflorescence arising through a new growth with persistent floral bracts, a sparsely pubescent ovary and carrying simultaneously opening flowers that have been reported to have a sweet scent

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 de Vogel 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo not; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 10 2012 Wood & van der Ent photo fide; A Guide to the Orchids of Kinabalu Wood 2013 photo fide

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