Judging Center: Atlanta
Award Number: 20222070
Award Date: May 14, 2022
Awarded As: Coelogyne calcicola
Coelogyne calcicola Kerr, J. Siam Soc., Nat. Hist. Suppl. 9: 233 (1933).
This name is accepted.
Thirty-eight cupped flowers and 11 buds on six inflorescences to 12.5cm; floral bract
1.9cm wide x 3.5cm long; plant 134cm wide x 52cm tall, well-grown in 35-cm plastic
container of bark mix; leaves dark green, lanceolate, 38cm long x 4.5cm wide;
pseudobulbs 11cm tall x 3.5cm wide, bifoliate; sepals and petals cream; lip white,
margins heavily fimbriate, keels yellow proximally, rust distally, hirsute, midlobe yellow,
blotched centrally; column white, anther cap tan; substance soft; texture crystalline;
country of origin China and southeast Asia; taxonomically identified by Kerr (1933);
awarded for rarity in cultivation and educational value.
Plant acquired from Hengduan Mountains Biotech.
Plant Leaf > number of leaves per growth or cane: 2
Plant > Leaf Length: 38
Plant > Leaf Width: 4.5
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: lanceolate
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Length: 11
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul Width: 3.5
Plant > Pseudobulb/Growth/Ramicaul distance between growths along rhizome:: 3-4
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 12.5
Inflorescence > Arrangement: cluster, crowded
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Length: 3.5
Inflorescence > Floral Bracts Width: 1.9
Inflorescence > Ovary Length: 2
Inflorescence > Ovary Width: 0.3
Inflorescence > Ovary Shape: arched
Inflorescence > Ovary Color: cream
Inflorescence > Ovary Texture: glabrous
Flower Natural Spread Length: 2
Flower Natural Spread Width: 6
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 3.9
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 1.8
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 4
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 1.5
Flower > Petals Length: 3.0
Flower > Petals Width: 0.3
Flower > Lip or Pouch Length: 3.6
Flower > Lip or Pouch Width: 1.5
Flower > Lip or Pouch> characters of lip (calli, spurs, keels, etc.): 2 hirsute keels
Flower > Column Length: 1.4
Flower > Column Width: 0.7
Flower > Column Color: cream
Flower > Anther Cap Color: tan