Cymbidium hookerianum Rchb. f. 1866 SECTION Cyperorchis Hunt 1970 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name Hooker's Cymbidium [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size to 5 3/5" [to 14 cm]

Found in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim on steep banks in dense, damp forests or evergreen-oak forests often where thick moss occurs at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters as a medium to large sized, cold to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ovoid, elongate, bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs carrying linear-elliptic, acute, leaves that are articulate 1.6 to 4" [4 to 10 cm] from the pseudobulb that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a very stout, sheathed below, arching to pendant, slightly flattened, to 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, apically racemose inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and carrying 6 to 15, mostly nodding, extremely fragrant, long-lasting flowers.

Synonyms Cymbidium giganteum var. hookerianum [Rchb.f] Bois 1893; Cymbidium grandiflorum Griff. 1851; Cymbidium grandiflorum var punctatum Cogn 1893; Cymbidium hookerianum var hookerianum Wu & Chen 1980; Cyperorchis grandiflora (Sw.) Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as C grandiflorum drawing; AOS Bulletin No 2 1963 photo as C grandifolium; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 11 1963 photo as C grandiflorum; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo as C grandiflorum; 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; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

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