Coelogyne comprises about 196 species (World Checklist of Monocotyledons, 2009). In these tropical countries it is found growing near sea level. IDENTIFY COELOGYNE USITANA ORCHID PLANT. Creamy, fragrant flowers with a colourful labellum are produced in summer. Coelogyne Culture: The Large-Flowered, Cool-Growing Coelogynes Coelogyne cristata 'The Queen', AM/AOS. It is a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with close set, narrowly ovoid, 4-angled, ancipitous, 7.5-8 cm long and about 2 cm wide pseudobulbs … Although for the most part the species are easy to grow and produce long lasting, fragrant flowers, they have never become really popular with growers or recieved much attention from orchidists. Coelogyne asperata Lindley is a large-growing lowland species that requires warm conditions. Coelogyne rochussennii Coelogyne rochussenii is a warm-growing, pendulous flowering orchid from low tropical areas of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines (where it is rare). Charles and Margaret Baker . Most of the species are easy to grow and produce long-lasting, fragrant flowers and should be much more popular with hobbyists, especially the large flowered cooler growing species as fuel cost rise. The Large-Flowered, Cool-Growing Coelogyne. Coelogyne usitana is found in the Philippines, where it grows both epiphytes in trees, and lithophyte on rocks at an altitude of about 800 meters above sea level. Widely distributed from Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia to Papua New Guinea and the islands of the South-West Pacific. The genus Coelogyne is comprised of about one hundred and forty species.