Cymbidium erythrostylum Rolfe 1905 SECTION Annamaea Hunt 1970 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Musia Stagg.

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Common Name The Red Column Cymbidium

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Vietnam at elevations around 1500 meters, where it can be encountered on trees, in the ground or on rocks, and is a very forgiving plant that can be grown many ways. This apecies has narrow-ovoid, bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs with 2 to 3, scarious with age cataphylls and carries, 6 to 8, thin, narrowly linear-obovate, arched, unequally apiculate apice leaves. It is from the second group mentioned in the genus description and so is best grown warm to cool and will bloom in the late summer and fall on a basal, erect or arching, 2' [60 cm] long, racemose scape with basal sheaths and 4 to 10, long-lasting, non-fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Cyperorchis erythrostyla (Rolfe) Schltr. 1924; Cymbidium erythrostylum var magnificum Hort 1931

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 11 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 9 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 9 1996 drawing; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

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