Coelogyne occultata Hook.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 71-72

Coelogyne occultata Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 832, 1890

Homotypic synonym: Pleione occultata (Hook.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 680, 1891.

Specimens examined:— UPPER MYANMAR. 1924−1925, Forrest 27060 ( BM, NY det. E. A. Christenson, P). KACHIN. Putao District : 2135−2440 m, 31 Jul 1926, Kingdon-Ward 7237 ( K) ; same loc., 1100 m, 22−24 Mar 2009, Kurzweil & Saw Lwin KL 2744 ( SING [s]), ident. uncertain; Myitkyina District : 2440−3050 m, 9 Jul 1914, Kingdon- Ward 1767 ( E) ; same loc., 1220−2380 m, 16 Jul 1919, Farrer 1088 ( E) ; same loc., 2285 m, 6 Apr 1938, Kermode 17177 ( AMES, K) . MANDALAY. Mandalay District : 1926, Swinhoe 48 ( K) ; same loc., illegible s.n. (K).

Distribution:— The eastern Himalayas, northeastern India, Myanmar and southwestern China. Note:— The specific epithet is derived from the Latin ‘occultatum’, to hide or conceal in reference to the flowers half hidden by the floral bracts, not named after eye-like markings (thus ‘occulata’) on the lip as contended by Clayton (2002: 190).