Coelogyne pulverula Teijsm. & Binn., Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië xxiv. (1862) 306.
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| Coelogyne pulverula Teijsm. & Binn., Photo by Mathew Jose Mathew |
its native range is Thailand to W. Malesia.
Latinh Name:
Coelogyne pulverula Teijsm. & Binn.
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
Coelogyne dayana Rchb.f.
Pleione dayana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
English Name:
The Powdery Flower Coelogyne.
Description:
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 1 m and has a fractiflex rachis with up to 60 flowers, spaced, (2.5 cm) apart that open simultaneously, and blooms in the spring.
Distribution:
Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Sumatera, Thailand.
Ecological:
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 m as a quite large, hot to cool growing epyphite or lithophyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the spring.
Flower size:
6.0 cm.
Cultivation:
Plants are usually grown in baskets. Plant grows in intermediate to warm temperatures with partial shade. Water regularly through the year. Pot in a well drain medium. Pot in a plastic or clay pot with a mix of fine fir bark, tree fern fibers, and perlite or pot in New Zealand sphagnum moss.
Type:
Reference:
- theplantlist.org
- orchidspecies.com
- ipni.org
- powo.science.kew.org
- travaldo.blogspot.com
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