Cymbidium cochleare Lindl. 1858 SECTION Cyperorchis Hunt 1970 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids

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Common Name The Spoon-Shaped Cymbidium

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Taiwan, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Myanamar and Thailand? in shady hot tropical valleys at elevations around 300 to 1600 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and rarely terrestrial with narrowly ovoid, bilaterally flattened, enveloped by 5 scarious cataphylls and carrying 9 to 14, distichous, linear, tapering to an acute apex leaves that are articulated 1 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] from the pseudobulb and blooms in the winter and spring on an sub-erect to arching, 12 to 26" [30 to 65 cm] long, densely many [ 7 to 30] flowered inflorescence wit to 6, inflated, cymbiform sheaths and triangular, scarious, floral bracts and carrying waxy, somewhat fragrant, pendulous bell-shaped flowers..

Synonyms Cymbidium babae (Kudô ex Masam.) Masam. 1993; Cyperorchis cochleare (Lindl.) Benth. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Cyperorchis cochleare; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 11 1962 photo as Cyperorchis cochlearis; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo as Cyperorchis cochlearis; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007

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