Coelogyne asperata Lindl. 1849

Common Name possibly refers to the rough surface of the lip

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found at elevations below 1000 meters in Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, the Philippines, Papua and New Guinea, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands in swamp forests at elevations of sea-level to 600 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic or sometimes lithophytic species in primary forests near rivers and streams at elevations of sealevel to 1600 meters with somewhat compressed, ribbed, broadly conical pseudobulbs carrying oblanceolate, long-petiolate, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, arching, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, crowded proteranthous inflorescence with ovate, large, dry, concave floral bracts and has 15 to 40, short-lived, fragrant, heavy textured, waxy flowers arising from the apex of a new growth.

Synonyms Coelogyne edelfeldtii F. Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894; Coelogyne lourii Paxton 1849; Coelogyne lowii Paxton 1849; Coelogyne macrophylla Teijsm. & Binn. 1867; Coelogne pustulosa Ridley 1886; Cymbidium robustum Gilli 1980 publ. 1983; Pleione asperata (Lindl.) Kuntze. 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as Coelogne pustulosa; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 photo; AOS Bulletin Vopl 32 nO 5 1963; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 2 1987 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 1 1993 photo; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Genus Coelogyne A Synopsis, D A Clayton 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006