Cymbidium ensifolium [L]Swartz 1799 SUBGENUS Jensoa SECTION Jensoa Photo courtesy of Oak Hill Gardens.

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Common Name Cymbidium With The sword Shaped Leaves

Flower Size 2 3/4" [6.5 cm]

Found in Japan, China, Vietnam and south through Indochina to Sumatra and Java in evergreen broadleafed plateau forests in soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses or on mossy limestone rocks as a lithophyte at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters , this medium sized, cold to warm growing terrestrial species with small pseudobulbs envewloped completely by imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths each carrying 3 to 4, strap-shaped, thin, acute, sometimes variegated leaves and blooms in the late spring on a basal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, racemose scape that has a few to many [3 to 9], long-lasting, fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Cymbidium acuminatum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1996; Cymbidium albomarginatum Makino 1912; Cymbidium arrogans Hayata 1914; Cymbidium ensifolium subsp. haematodes (Lindl.) Du Puy & P.J.Cribb ex Govaerts 1999; Cymbidium ensifolium var. haematodes (Lindl.) Trimen 1885; Cymbidium ensifolium var. misericors (Hayata) T.P.Lin 1977; Cymbidium ensifolium var. rubrigemmum (Hayata) T.S.Liu & H.J.Su 1978; Cymbidium ensifolium var. xiphiifolium (Lindl.) S.S.Ying 1990; Cymbidium ensifolium var. yakibaran (Makino) Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen 1980; Cymbidium gonzalesii Quisumb. 1940; Cymbidium gyokuchin Makar. 1912; Cymbidium gyokuchin var. arrogans (Hayata) S.S.Ying 1977; Cymbidium haematodes Lindl. 1833; Cymbidium kanran var. misericors (Hayata) S.S.Ying 1977; Cymbidium koran Makino 1912; Cymbidium micans Schau. 1843; Cymbidium misericors Hayata 1914; Cymbidium niveomarginatum Makino 1912; Cymbidium rubrigemmum Hayata 1916; Cymbidium shimaran Makino 1912; Cymbidium siamense Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Cymbidium sundaicum Schltr. 1919; Cymbidium xiphiifolium Lindl. 1821; Cymbidium yakibaran Makino, Iiinuma 1912; *Epidendrum ensifolium L. 1753; Jensoa ensata Raf. 1836; Limodorum ensatum Thunb. 1784

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002

Cymbidium ensifolium subsp. haematodes (Lindl.) Du Puy & P.J.Cribb ex Govaerts 1999 Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; ; Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Occurs from India to New Guinea

Synonyms Cymbidium acuminatum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1996; Cymbidium ensifolium var. haematodes (Lindl.) Trimen 1885; *Cymbidium haematodes Lindl. 1833; Cymbidium siamense Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Cymbidium sundaicum Schltr. 1919;

Cymbidium ensifolium var album [L]Swartz 1799 Photo courtesy of Tan Eng Tiek

An albino form of the previous species.

Cymbidium ensifolium var Kuan Yin Susin [L]Swartz 1799 Photo courtesy of First Ray Orchids

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A variety of the previous species

Cymbidium ensifolium var. Si Ji Lan [L]Swartz 1799 Photo courtesy of First Ray Orchids

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A variety of the previous species.