Cymbidiella falcigera (Rchb.f.) Garay 1976 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Plant in situ in Madagascar Photos courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Sickle-Shaped Leaf Cymbidiella
Flower Size 3.2" [8 cm]
Found in Madagascar along the coast and along rivers in forests at elevations of sealevel to 400 [1450] meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with cylindrical, close set pseudobulbs carrying in a fan, loriform, lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, basal, to 32" [to 80 cm] long, paniculate inflorescence
Synonyms Caloglossum humblotii (Rolfe) Schltr. 1918; Caloglossum magnificum Schltr. 1918; Cymbidiella humblotii (Rolfe) Rolfe 1918; Cymbidium humblotii Rolfe 1892; *Grammangis falcigera Rchb.f. 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 9 1981 photo as C humblotii; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 4 1996 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide
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