Coelogyne suaveolens (Lindl.) Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Lentiginosae Pfitzer
Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
Common Name The Mildly Fragrant Coelogyne - In China Shu Jing Bei Mu Lan
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in central China, Assam, eastern Himalayas and Thailand in lower montane, evergreen broad-leaved forests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] between each ovoid, obtuse pseudobulb enveloped basally by a few sheaths and carrying 2, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, plicate, 9 nerved, coriaceous, margins undulate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a 6" [15 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, many flowered inflorescence arising on a newly emerging pseudobulb with deciduous floral bracts and successive opening, fragrant flowers with 2 to 3 open at any one time.
Synonyms Pholidota suaveolens Lindl. 1856; Pleione suaveolens (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing ok; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 Drawing ok; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 29 N.R. 4 Orchid Genera in Thailand III Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids of Thailand 2 Vaddhanaphuti 2009 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos plant only; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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