Coelogyne brunnea - Brown Coelogyne

Brown Coelogyne is an orchid with beautiful flowers with a bold brown lip. The 3-lobed lip measures 3-3.5 x 1.2-1.7 cm, with three broad keels producing large nectar drops. Sepals, petals and column are pale greenish or ochrish, while the lip is brown to pale ochrish or white with light orange-brown markings. Column is about 2 cm long and winged at the top. The dorsal sepal is 3.2-4 x 1-1.2 cm, lateral sepals 3-3.6 x 0.7-1 cm, and petals 2.7-3.5 cm x 1-2 mm. The flower cluster has a 3.5-7 cm stalk and a slightly zig-zag, curved to drooping axis 5-12 cm long, with 1-2.5 cm internodes. There are 4-8 simultaneously opening, hairless flowers, about 6 cm across, with a sawdust-like scent. Pseudobulbs are 1-2.5 cm apart, cylindric-oblong to spindle-shaped, measuring 4-11 x 1.5-2 cm. Each bears 2 leaves with 0.5-4 cm stalks. Leaves blades are broadly lanceshaped to elliptic-oblong, 8-28 x 3.5-7 cm, pointed, with 3-5 nerves and a prominent midrib. It grows in hill to lower mountain forests at 900-1700 m altitudes, in China South-Central, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and probably NE India.