Coelogyne swaniana Rolfe 1894 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer & Kraenzlin
Photo by Peter Bryder Copyright ©
Common Name Swain's Coelogyne [English Gardener 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippines in dense to open forests on large branches at elevations of 910 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte but also found in humus and moss as a terrestrial and on limestone and sandstone as a lithophyte with close set, 4 angled, narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, elliptical to obovate, plicate, 3 to 7 nerved, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, arching to descending, several to many flowered, heteranthous inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with a few basal bracts and ovate floral bracts and carrying 7 to 15 wide spread, simultaneously opening flowers.
Synonyms Coelogyne quadrangularis Ridl. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 5 Ames 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957;AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 5 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 2 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidaniana Philippinana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 drawing fide/photo good; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 de Vogel 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo good; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #7 2019 drawing fide;
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