Coelogyne miniata
species of plant
Coelogyne miniata is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the genus Coelogyne, native to the western Malesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and the Lesser Sunda Islands. It is a small, straggling, creeping plant, distinguished within its mostly white- or cream-flowered genus by unusually vivid orange-red flowers, and it is the type species of Coelogyne section Hologyne.
Taxonomy
The species was first described in 1825 by the German-Dutch botanist Carl Ludwig Blume as Chelonanthera miniata, in his Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indië (p. 385), based on material collected in Java during his botanical surveys for the Dutch colonial government. In 1833, John Lindley transferred it to the genus Coelogyne in his Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants (p. 42), giving rise to the currently accepted name Coelogyne miniata (Blume) Lindl.
The species has accumulated several synonyms over subsequent decades of taxonomic revision, including Coelogyne simplex Lindl. (1854), Coelogyne lauterbachiana Kraenzl. (1895), Hologyne miniata (Blume) Pfitzer (1907), Hologyne lauterbachiana (Kraenzl.) Pfitzer (1907), and combinations placed in Pleione by Otto Kuntze. The genus name Hologyne, proposed by Ernst Pfitzer in 1907, was later reduced to a section of Coelogyne; in Dorothy Clayton's 2002 monographic revision of the genus, The Genus Coelogyne: A Synopsis, C. miniata was designated the type species for section Hologyne, a small group that also includes C. malipoensis and C. obtusifolia.
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