!Cymbidium aloifolium (L.) Sw. 1799 SECTION Cymbidium Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Aloe-Leafed Cymbidium

Flower Size 1 3/4" [4.25 cm]

Found in South Central China, Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands , Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java and Sumatra in evergreen and in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on open mossy rocks with very small pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf bases, with coriaceous, suberect, linear-ligulate, obscurely bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, basal, pendant, laxly many [45] flowered, racemose inflorescence occuring in the spring. This species can easily be confused with C dayanum but differs in having a rounded lip edge and an hourglass shape in the center of the lip. This species is found in seasonal forests.

Synonyms Aerides borassi Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. 1813; Cymbidium crassifolium Wall. 1828; Cymbidium erectum Wight 1852; Cymbidium intermedium H.G.Jones 1974; Cymbidium mannii Rchb. f. 1872; Cymbidium pendulum (Roxb.) Sw. 1799; Cymbidium simulans Rolfe 1917; Epidendrum aloides Curtis 1797; *Epidendrum aloifolium L. 1753; Epidendrum pendulum Roxb. 1795

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo as C pendulum; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 3 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997 as Cymbidium mannii; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 photo as C pendulum; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 4 2000 photo; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007

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