Cymbidium eburneum Lindl. 1847SECTION Cyperorchis Hunt 1970 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George

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Common Name The Ivory-Colored Cymbidium

Flower Size 3.8 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm]

Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar, southern China and Vietnam in highland cloud forests on trees and rocks at elevations around 300 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with clustered, ovoid to fusiform, bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several imbricating leaf bases carrying 9 to 17, distichous, linear-ligulate, thin textured, acute or acutely bifid leaves articulated 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] from the pseudobulb that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect to sub-erect, from within the leaf axils, 8 to 21 basally sheathed, 20 to 28" [50 to 70cm] long inflorescence with 1 to 2 [3], fragrant [lilacs], waxy, long-lasting flowers.

Synonyms Cymbidium eburneum var dayi Jennings 1875; Cymbidium eburneum var. longzhouense Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen 2006; Cymbidium eburneum var philbrickianum Rchb.f 1886; Cymbidium eburneum var williamsianum Rchb.f 1881; Cymbidium syringodorum Griff. 1851; Cyperorchis eburnea (Lindl.) Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 Drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 1 1958 drawing; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 5 1978 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 4 1980 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 4 1982 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 9 1982 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

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