Coelogyne

Coelogyneae subtribe Coelogyninae

Caespitose to creeping or trailing epiphytes, lithophytes, or rarely terrestrials. Pseudobulbs ovoid to cylindric, often angled, usually glossy, subtended by clasping papery bracts. Inflorescences erect or pendent racemes, produced with the emerging new growth or from mature pseudobulbs, the floral bracts often conspicuous and enveloping the ovary. Flowers cupped or spreading, produced simultaneously or in succession, usually fragrant, white, yellow, or pale brown. Sepals and petals free, spreading, the petals usually narrower than the sepals, the dorsal sepal often concave and arching over the column. Lip three-lobed, usually +/- tubular, the callus of toothed or variously textured keels often associated with warty outgrowths on the midlobe. Column straight or arching, without foot, with conspicuous wings usually continuous with a large hooded clinandrium; pollinia 4, in two pairs, naked.

From the Greek koilos, meaning hollow, and gyne, meaning pistil or woman, referring to the deeply excavated stigma.

A genus of about 100 species throughout the Asian tropics.

D’A. Barretto, G. 1990. A new species of Coelogyne Lindl. from Hong Kong. Orchid Rev. 98(1156):37-41.

Butzin, F. 1974. Bestimmungsschlüssel für die in Kultur genommenen Arten der Coelogyninae (Orchidaceae). Willdenowia 7:245-260.

Chan, C. L. 1997. Notes on some Coelogyne orchids of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah. Malayan Orch. Rev. 31:59-63.

Chowdhery, H. J. and G. D. Pal 1997. A new species of Coelogyne (Orchidaceae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Nordic J. Bot. 17(4):369-371.

Clayton, D. 1998. Coelogyne intermedia: what do we know about it? Orchid Rev. 106(1219):39-41.

Clayton, D. 1999. Coelogyne intermedia further thoughts. Orchid Rev. 107(1227):154.

Cootes, J. 1999. Coelogyne bilamellata Lindley. Orchids Austral. 11(1):22-23.

Cootes, J. 2000. Coelogyne marmorata Rchb.f. Orchids Austral. 12(2):51.

Cribb, P. J. 1981. A new species of Coelogyne (Orchidaceae) from West Malaysia. Kew Bull. 36:779-781.

Das, S. and S. K. Jain 1976(1979). Coelogyne glandulosa Lindl. and its two new varieties. Bull. Bot. Soc. India 18(1-4):241-244.

Das, S. and S. K. Jain 1978. Two new species of the genus Coelogyne Lindl. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Bull. 27(5):119-124.

Davies, K. C. 1990. The genus Coelogyne in cultivation. Orchid Rev. 98(1165):349-354.

De Vogel, E. F. 1992. Revisions in Coelogyninae (Orchidaceae) IV. Coelogyne section Tomentosae. Orchid Monogr. 6:1-42.

Howcroft, N. H. S. 1983. Contributions to the orchid flora of the Araucaria forests in New Guinea, 4. Coelogyne beccarii Reichb.f. Orchadian 7(7):154-157.

Jenny, R. 1994. Coelogyne pandurata Lindl. 1853. Die Orchidee 45(1): Orchideenkartei Seite 747-748.

Jenny, R. 1994. Coelogyne asperata Lindl. 1849. Die Orchidee 45(4): Orchideenkartei Seite 767-768.

Lewis, B. A. and P. J. Cribb 1991. Coelogyne susanae, a new species of Orchidaceae from the Solomon Islands and Bougainville. Kew Bull. 46(2):317-319.

Seidenfaden, G. 1975. Orchid genera in Thailand, III. Coelogyne Lindl. Dansk Bot. Arkiv 29:1-94.

Phukan, S. 1997. Coelogyne hajrae Phukan, a new species from India. Orchid Rev. 105(1214):94-95.

Sharma, B. D. and N. C. Rathakrishnan 1971. Identity of Coelogyne angustifolia sensu Wight (Orchidaceae). Bull. Bot. Soc. India 13(3-4):349-351.

Taylor, P. 1999. Coelogyne mooreana Rolfe. Orchids Austral. 11(2):20-21.