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Orchid Species: Coelogyne pulverula
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Coelogyne pulverula is an orchid species identified by Teijsm. & Binn. in 1862.
ORIGIN: Found in peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in lowland rainforests and lower montane forests on trunks and major branches often near or over streams and rivers or on large rocks and cliff faces at elevations of 250 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Quite large, hot to cool growing epyphite or lithophyte with close set, spindle to long ovoid, shallowly grooved pseudobulbs and carrying 2, apical, rather stiff, oblanceolate to long elliptic, plicate, 7 to 9 nerved, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves. The proteranthous to synanthous inflorescence is pendulous, enveloped basally by imbricate bracts and can reach more than 3' 4 [1 meter] and has a fractiflex rachis with up to 60 flowers, spaced, 1 [2.5 cm] apart that open simultaneously, and blooms in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 2 2/5 inches [5 to 6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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