Coelogyne moultonii J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Tomentosae Pfitzer
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.
Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning Moulton's Coelogyne [Collector in Borneo Late 1800's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]
Found in Sabah, Borneo in lower montane mossy forests at elevations of 1100 to 2400 meters as a giant sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with close set, slender, cylindrical, longitudinally grooved, elongate pseudobulbs carrying 2, linear to very narrowly elliptic, plicate, 7 to 9 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a synanthous, limply pendulous, straight to slightly fractiflex, 12 to 36" [90 cm] long, 24 to 65 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly appearing growth and has simultaneously opening flowers and ovate to broadly ovate, persistent floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 de Vogel 1992 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001 photo fide; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Les Coelogynes E & J George 2011 photo fide; A Guide to the Orchids of Kinabalu Wood 2013 photo fide
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