Coelogyne flaccida is a very rewarding, medium sized, warm to cool growing species hailing from Nepal, northern India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Laos and southern China at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters in rain forests, lower and upper montane forests with close set, conical, lightly grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, 3 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves. It produces basal, slender, pendulous 25 cm long, somewhat fractiflex rachis, loosely few to many [5 to 12] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with deciduous floral bracts and waxy, highly perfumed [not so good], cream coloured, simultaneously opening flowers, each reaching about 4-5 cm across, occurring in the summer.
