"Coelogyne tommyi Gravend. & P.O'Byrne was only officially described and named in 1999 by Gravendeel and O'Byrne and named after Mr Tommy Sng who cultivated the type specimen in Singapore. Very little else is known about this Coelogyne"

 Coelogyne tommyi Gravend. & P.O'Byrne, Blumea 44(2): 310 (1999).

Coelogyne tommyi Gravend. & P.O'Byrne, Photo by Marcio Balieiro

Family:

Orchidaceae.

Synonym Name: 

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

Tommy's Coelogyne (Mr Tommy Sng cultivator of type specimen).

Description: 

Cylindric to ovoid, obtusely 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 5 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf, 10 cm long, fractiflex rachis, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly emerging pseudobulb with ovate-oblong, deciduous floral bracts and has almost simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers

Distribution:

Sumatra.

Ecological:

It is growing in a humid glass house in Canberra from 80C to 300C and seems to be very easy going and happy to flower in these conditions

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

7.6 cm.

Cultivation:

Type:

holotype Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens

isotype Rijksherbarium

Ref:

orchidspecies.com

ipni.org

powo.science.kew.org 

coelogynes.com