Cymbidium insigne Rolfe 1904 SECTION Cyperorchis Hunt 1970 Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George
Alba color form Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
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Common Name The Splendid Cymbidium
Flower Size 2.8 to 3 1/2" [7 to 9 cm]
Found in Thailand, Vietnam and Hainan China in highland primary cloud forests in shallow, sandy soils among sandstone rocks often in the shade of low bushes at elevations of 1000 to 2600 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ovoid, lightly bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs carrying 6 to 10, narrowly linear-elliptic, tapering to an acute apex leaves articulated to a broadly sheathing base,2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] from the pseudobulb that blooms in the fall through spring on a sheathed, erect, 3'4" to 4'8" [100 to 150 cm] tall, loosely several to many [to 27] flowered inflorescence and carrying, non-fragrant, close set flowers.
Synonyms Cymbidium insigne f. album (O'Brien) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007; Cymbidium insigne var. album O'Brien 1917; Cymbidium insigne var sandreae [O'Brien] Hort 1909; Cymbidium insigne subsp. seidenfadenii P.J.Cribb & Du Puy 2007; Cymbidium sanderi O'Brien 1905; Cyperorchis insignis (Rolfe) Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 8 1980 photo as C insigne var alba; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007
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