Category: Coelogyne

This medium-sized, hot-growing epiphyte or terrestrial orchid is found in Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan Borneo at elevations of 50 to 400 meters in lowland mixed forests. It has cylindrical to fusiform pseudobulbs spaced 1.75 to 2.5 cm apart, each with two narrowly elliptic, thin, plicate leaves on a petiolate base. Blooming in summer, it produces… Continue reading Coelogyne motleyi

This cool to cold-growing epiphyte is found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and Java at elevations of 1150 to 2100 meters in river valleys and montane forests. It has elongate-conical, somewhat angled pseudobulbs that turn yellowish-green and wrinkled with age, each carrying a single, plicate, elliptic-obovate, long-petiolate leaf. Blooming mainly in summer, it produces a delicate,… Continue reading Coelogyne massangeana

This small, warm to cool-growing epiphyte or lithophyte is found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo at elevations of 300 to 2150 meters in lowland and montane forests. It has a creeping rhizome with ovate, weakly angled pseudobulbs spaced 3 to 5 cm apart, each carrying two glossy, lanceolate, plicate leaves with grooved petiolate bases.… Continue reading Coelogyne cumingii

This medium-sized, hot to cool-growing epiphyte is found in Southeast Asia at elevations of 200 to 1500 meters in montane deciduous forests. It has pale green, narrowly conical, four-angled pseudobulbs spaced 2.5 cm apart, each with two suberect, elliptic-lanceolate, plicate leaves. Blooming in spring, it produces an erect to arching 10 to 18 cm racemose… Continue reading Coelogyne brachyptera

This large, hot to cool-growing epiphyte or lithophyte is found in Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands at elevations up to 1600 meters, often near rivers and streams. It has compressed, ribbed, broadly conical pseudobulbs with long-petiolate, plicate leaves. Blooming in late winter to summer, it produces a 45 cm arching inflorescence with 15 to… Continue reading Coelogyne asperata