Cymbidium chloranthum Lindl. 1843 SECTION Floribundum Seth & Cribb 1984 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name The Green Flowered Cymbidium

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and Java in evergreen, riverine and hill foreats at elevations around 250 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with ovoid, narrowing apically and basally, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 5 to 6, erect, strap-like, obtuse, unequally bilobed apically, thin yet leathery to hard, narrowing basally leaves that blooms sporadically at most any time of the year on a stout, erect, 14 to 18.8" [36 to 47 cm] tall, bright green inflorescence with 6, overlapping, keeled, cymbidiform, acute bracts as well as short, triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying several to many [15 to 40], closely spaced, wide open, non-scented flowers that becomes strongly suffused with crimson after pollination.

Synonyms Cymbidium pulchellum Schltr. 1910; Cymbidium sanguinolentum Teijsm. & Binn. 1862; Cymbidium sanguineum Teijsm. & Binn. 1866; Cymbidium variciferum Rchb.f. 1856

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as C sanguinolentum; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 2 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 5 1980 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 3 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 2 1987 photo; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 photo; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 4 2000 photo; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007

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