Coelogyne usitana

"Coelogyne usitana Roeth & O.Gruss is found in the Philippines, where it grows both epiphytes in trees, and lithophyte on rocks at an altitude of about 800 meters above sea level."

Coelogyne usitana Roeth & O.Gruss, Orchidee (Hamburg) 52(2): 211 (2001).

Coelogyne usitana
Coelogyne usitana
Coelogyne usitana
Coelogyne usitana
Coelogyne usitana Roeth & O.Gruss; Photo by Alexandre Koskas
Coelogyne usitana
Coelogyne usitana
Coelogyne usitana
Coelogyne usitana Roeth & O.Gruss; Photo by Pedro Spínola - Orquídeas Madeira

its native range is Philippines.

Latin Name: 

Coelogyne usitana Roeth & O.Gruss

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

Usita's Coelogyne (Philippine Collector of type specimen and orchid enthusiast current).

Description: 

With close set, narrowly ovoid, 4-angled, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 4 membraneous, narrowly ovoid bracts and carrying a single, apical, broadly elliptical, acute, plicate, 5 to 7 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year but mostly from spring to summer with an erect to then pendulous, to 30 cm long, fractiflex rachis, successively single, few to many to 20 flowering, to 55 cm long inflorescence arising on a newly developing pseudobulb with wide spread, downward facing flowers with only a single flower open at any one time.

Distribution:

Philippines.

Ecological:

At elevations around 800 m as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring to summer.

Flower size:

7.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Temperature:

Intermediate-Warm

Light Level:

Low-Medium

Typus:

Collector Team:

Jürgen Roeth

Locality:

Zentral-Ost Mindanao, c. 800m, coll. Vilmoor USITA

Collection Date:

16 Aug 1999

Type Herbaria:

holotype Herbarium, Martin-Luther-Universität 083742

Distribution Of Types:

Philippines.

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/1020660-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1020660-1

- orchidspecies.com/coelusitana.htm.

- travaldo.blogspot.com/2018/05/coelogyne-usitana-orchid-plant-care-and-culture.html

- orchidweb.com/orchids/other-orchids/species/coelogyne-usitana

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