Coelogyne rigida C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.

Coelogyne rigida C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30(1): 146 (1874).

Coelogyne rigida C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f., Photo by Yosuke Oda 

its native range is E. Himalaya to China (S. Yunnan) and Peninsula Malaysia.

Latin Name: 

Coelogyne rigida C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.,

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Coelogyne tricarinata Ridl.

Pleione rigida (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Vietnamese name: 

Thanh đạm nhám.

English Name:

The Rigid Coelogyne (refers to the rigid form of the species).

Chinese name:

Ting Jing Bei Mu Lan - 挺茎贝母兰 .

Description: 

With a stout rhizome enveloped by sheaths and giving rise to narrowly oblong pseudobulbs with 3 to 5 cm between each one and enveloped basally by sheaths and carrying 2, elliptic, lanceolate, acuminate, 7 nerved, plicate, narrowing below in to the grooved petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a hysteranthous, slender, arching, fractiflex, 8.5 to 10 cm long, 5 to 12 flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers and deciduous floral bracts.

Distribution:

Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

Ecological:

In evergreen & deciduous forests at elevations of 700 to 1200 m as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte on trees.

Flowering times:

Bloome in the summer.

Flower size:

2.5 cm

Cultivation:

Plants are usually grown in baskets. Plant grows in 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.

Typus:

May 9, 1974 Robinson, H.C. [s.n.], Thailand K000078782 holotype

May 9, 1974 Robinson, H.C. [s.n.], Thailand K000078783 holotype

Parish, C.S.P. [42], Burma K000078679 holotype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/624031-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:624031-1

-  http://www.orchidspecies.com/coelrigida.htm.

- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250092715

- Lai Châu, Lào Cai, Gia Lai, Kon Tum

- https://orchids.fandom.com