Cymbidium goeringii [Rchb.f]Rchb.f 1864 SECTION Jensoa [Raf.] Schlechter 1924 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.
Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Natsui
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Common Name Goering's Cymbidium [German Plant Collector in Japan 1800's]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
A native of NW India, Bhutan, China, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Japan and Korea as a smaller, cool growing terresrial with smaller, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying linear-elliptic, acute, arched leaves with fine toothed margins that blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, erect, basally sheathed, 4" [10 cm] long, solitary to few [1 to 3] flowered, shorter than the leaves inflorescence that has a fragrant flowers held low amid the leaves and has been a perrenial favorite of Japanese and Chinese culture for centuries.
Synonyms Cymbidium chuen-lan C.H. Chow; Cymbidium formosanum var. gracillimum (Fukuy.) T.S.Liu & H.J.Su 1978; Cymbidium forrestii Rolfe 1913; Cymbidium goeringii var. gracillimum (Fukuy.) Govaerts 1999; Cymbidium goeringii var. longibracteatum (Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen) Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen 1980; Cymbidium goeringii var. mackinnonii (Duthie) A.N.Rao 2000; Cymbidium goeringii var. serratum (Schltr.) Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen 1980; Cymbidium goeringii var. tortisepalum (Fukuy.) Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen 1980; Cymbidium tortisepalum var. viridiflorum S.S.Ying 1977; Cymbidium gracillimum Fukuy. 1932; Cymbidium mackinnonii Duthie 1902; Cymbidium pseudovirens Schltr. 1922; Cymbidium serratum Schltr. 1919; Cymbidium tentyozanense Masam. 1935; Cymbidium tortisepalum Fukuy. 1934; Cymbidium tsukengensis C.Chow 1970; Cymbidium uniflorum Yen 1964; Cymbidium virescens Lindl. 1838; Cymbidium yunnanense Schltr. 1919; *Maxillaria goeringii Rchb.f. 1845
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 photo as C virescens; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 NO 5 1964; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 7 1992 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 3 1994 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 11 1997 photo; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997 as Cym longibracteatum; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 as C chuen-lan; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 as C gracillimum; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 as C tsukengensis; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998; Orchid Australia Vol 11 No 5 1999 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 7 1999 photo; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide as C goeryngii var longibracteatum; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 9 2003 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 6 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 7 2005 photo; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007; Native Orchids of Shaanxi - Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;
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