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Coelogyne alba is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1862. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Otochilus albus.
ORIGIN: Otochilus alba is usually an epiphyte found from the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and southern China in primary highland cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with subcylindrical, grooved pseudobulbs enveloped basally by tubular sheaths in youth and carrying oblong-elliptic, acumninate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a slender, slightly fractiflex, 4.8 to 8 [12 to 20 cm] long, laxly 12 to 16 flowered, racemose inflorescence that is enveloped by imbricate sheaths and has caducous, ovate-lanceolate, floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 to 0.6 inches [1 to 1.8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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