Cymbidium erythraeum Lindl. 1859 SECTION Cyperorchis Hunt 1970
Plant and Flowers Photo by © Stephen Early
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Common Name The Red-Spotted Lip Cymbidium
Flower Size 3.2" [8 cm]
Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, western Himalayas, Myanamar, China and Vietnam on steep banks in open mossy evergreen forests at elevations of 1000 to 2400 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ovoid, bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs carrying, 5 to 9, distichous, linear-oblong, gradually tapering to a fine point leaves articulated 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] from the pseduobulb that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an suberect to arching or horizontal, 5 to 14 flowered, 10" to 30" [25 to 75 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with scarious, lanceolate, acute sheaths and triangular, floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Cymbidium hennisianum Schltr. 1918; Cymbidium longifolium Lindley 1833; Cyperorchis hennisiana (Schltr.) Schltr. 1924; Cyperorchis longifolia (D.Don) Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo as C longifolium; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007
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