Coelogyne testacea

This orchid is found in Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra, growing in lowland rainforests and riverine forests at elevations from sea level to 1400 meters. It is a large, hot to cool growing epiphyte or occasional terrestrial plant with close-set, oblong-ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs. It has two apical, lanceolate, plicate leaves with wavy margins. Blooming in late… Continue reading Coelogyne testacea

Coelogyne septemcostata

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This orchid is found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo, growing in moist, shady lowland forests, often on trees overhanging rivers at elevations of 50 to 2300 meters. It is a medium-sized epiphyte with clustered, ovoid, wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic leaf. Blooming on a newly developing pseudobulb, it produces a 12.5… Continue reading Coelogyne septemcostata

Coelogyne rochusenii

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This orchid is found in Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and the Philippines, growing as a medium-sized epiphyte or occasional lithophyte in lowlands up to 1500 meters, often on trees near rivers. It has cylindric, furrowed pseudobulbs with two oblanceolate to obovate leaves. Blooming in winter, it produces a 45 cm long, pendulous inflorescence with up… Continue reading Coelogyne rochusenii

Coelogyne radioferens

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This warm to cold-growing orchid is found in Brunei, Kalimantan, and Sabah, Borneo, in montane forests at elevations of 900 to 2100 meters. It grows as an epiphyte on tree trunks or occasionally as a lithophyte, with close-set, slender, spindle-shaped to cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying two long, plicate leaves. Blooming in spring and fall, it produces… Continue reading Coelogyne radioferens

Coelogyne pandurata

This large, hot-growing orchid is found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines, growing as an epiphyte on trees near rivers or as a terrestrial plant. It has well-spaced, strongly compressed pseudobulbs with two apical, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate leaves. Blooming in late spring to summer, it produces a 15 to 30 cm long, arching to pendant… Continue reading Coelogyne pandurata

Coelogyne moultonii

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This giant-sized, cool to cold-growing orchid is found in Sabah, Borneo, at elevations of 1100 to 2400 meters in lower montane mossy forests. It grows as an epiphyte, lithophyte, or terrestrial with close-set, slender, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying two narrow, plicate leaves. Blooming in spring and fall, it produces a 90 cm long, pendulous inflorescence with… Continue reading Coelogyne moultonii

Coelogyne motleyi

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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

Coelogyne massangeana

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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

Coelogyne cumingii

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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

Coelogyne brachyptera

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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