Cymbidium elegans

Cymbidium elegans

taxonomy	described by	Lindley, John
	published in	The Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants  163    1832
	family	Orchidaceae
	subfamily	Epidendroideae
	tribe	Cymbidieae
	subtribe	Cymbidiinae
	genus	Cymbidium  Swartz 1799
	chromosomes	40  (Tropicos / IPCN)
native of	origins	damp, shady forests, sometime overhanging streams, in India (Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Naga Hills,Lushai Hills), Bhutan, Nepal (Tembawa, Suketar), Burma (Chin Hills),
		Viet Nam, China (Yunnan, Xizang, Zizhiqu,)
	altitude	230 - 2800 m  (760 - 9240 ft)
	habitat	temperate to cool
		informations on the climate, the weather station Falam (Chin Hills, Chin, Burma)
		temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1500 m (4950 ft)
	life form	epiphyte or litophyte
	brightness	partial shade
inflorescence	length
	nr flowers
	size
	duration
	time	to bloom from birth, ≈ days
CITIES	appendix	II

   

Plants epiphytic or lithophytic, autotrophic. Pseudobulbs subovoid, bilaterally flattened, 4-9 × 2-3 cm, enclosed in persistent leaf bases. Leaves 6-16, distichous, lorate, 45-80 × 1-1.7(-2) cm, articulate 4-10 cm from base, apex acuminate or obtuse and usually slightly 2-lobed. Inflorescence arising from lower part of pseudobulb, usually arching, 40-50 cm; rachis pendulous or nodding, centrifugal or centripetal, densely 18-35-flowered; floral bracts small, 2-3 mm. Flowers slightly fragrant, pendulous, narrowly bell-shaped, not opening widely; pedicel and ovary 12-21 mm; sepals and petals cream-yellow to pale yellowish green, sometimes tinged pale pink; lip cream-yellow to pale yellowish green, occasionally with reddish spots, lamellae bright orange. Sepals narrowly obovate-lanceolate, 34-43 × 7-11 mm, apex acute. Petals broadly linear-oblanceolate, 30-40 × 5-8 mm, apex obtuse; lip oblanceolate-triangular, 30-40 × 4-8 mm, base fused to basal margins of column for 2-3 mm, 3-lobed; lateral lobes loosely clasping column, not ciliate; mid-lobe small, 6-10 × 5-8 mm, margin slightly undulate, apex slightly bilobed and incurved; disk minutely papillate on lateral lobes and densely pubescent at center of mid-lobe, with 2 longitudinal lamellae extending from base of lip to near base of mid-lobe; lamellae sparsely pubescent, 

at their apices and with a longitudinal channel between them, sometimes each lamella with a lanceolate appendage 3-5 mm on outside below middle. Column 28-32 mm, puberulent toward base, narrowly winged; pollinia 2, subclavate-obovoid.

Trees in forests, cliffs; 1700-2800 m. SW Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, N Vietnam].

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Cymbidium eburneum

Scientific Classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family:Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Tribe: Cymbidieae SubTribe: Cyrtopodiinae Genus: Cymbidium Species: Cym. eburneum Alliance: Binomial name Cymbidium eburneum Lindl. 1847

Cymbidium eburneum is a species of Cymbidium.

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DescriptionEdit

Plant blooms from winter to spring with one to two 12 cm wide flowers. Flowers are fragrant with the scent of lilac which is usually recessive in hybridization.

This species has a short inflorescence with a single large white flower.^[1] It is distinguished from other larges cymbidium species by having callus ridges which are fused.^[1]

The plant was first described by Lindley in 1847 from a species in Loddiges' nursery which was collected from the East Indies. It was later described by Griffith in 1851 as Cymbidium syringodorum, which was named after its lilac scent, and described to be from the Khasia Hill in Assam India.^[1]

Reichenbach described two variation in color Cymbidium eburneum var. philbrickianum which was pure white with a yellow callus and Cymbidium eburneum var. williamsianum which was also called var. dayi by Jennings in 1875, had a yellow callus and a pink tingle patch.^[1]

DistributionEdit

Plant is found growing on rocks and trees in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Yunnan China and Vietnam at elevations around 300 to 2000 meters

CultureEdit

Plant should be grown in cool areas with medium to bright light. Pot with bark and perlite. Plant prefers dry periods between watering. Reduce watering during the late fall to spring. Water about once a week. 

VarietiesEdit

Image	Name	Description
	Cymbidium eburneum variant	Sepals and petals are white, lip is white with several red spots and a yellow patch
	Cymbidium eburneum variant	Sepals and petals are white, lip is white with several red spots and a yellow patch

NamingEdit

Common Name: The Ivory-Colored Cymbidium

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Cymbidium devonianum

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Cymbidium devonianum

photo C. Solimbergo

taxonomy	described by	Paxton, Joseph
	published in	Paxton's Magazine of Botany  10 : 97    1843
	family	Orchidaceae
	subfamily	Epidendroideae
	tribe	Cymbidieae
	subtribe	Cymbidiinae
	genus	Cymbidium  Swartz 1799
	chromosomes	40  (Tropicos / IPCN)
native of	origins	cloud forests on rocks or moss-covered trees, in India (Sikkim, Lachen, Meghalaya, Lungshel, Lava forest), Kalimpong, Todey Busty, Kurseong, Darjeeling, Bhutan, Nepal, Thailand (Loei), Viet Nam, China (Yunnan)
	altitude	1300 - 2300 m  (4290 - 6900 ft)
	habitat	temperate to cool
		informations on the climate, the weather station Shillong (Meghalaya, India)
		temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1800 m (5940 ft)
	life form	epiphyte or litophyte
	brightness	partial shade
inflorescence	length	28 - 32 cm  (11.2" - 12.8"), basal, pendulous
	nr flowers	18 - 22
	size	single flower  4.5 L 3.5 cm  (1.8" L 1.4") - inflorescence  20 L 6 cm  (8" L 2.4")
	duration	inflorescence ≈ 30 - 40 days
	time	to bloom from birth, ≈ 180 days
CITIES	appendix	II

Cymbidium dayanum

Scientific Classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Asparagales Family:Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Tribe: Cymbidieae SubTribe: Cyrtopodiinae Genus: Cymbidium Species: Cym. dayanum Alliance: Binomial name Cymbidium dayanum Rchb.f 1869

Cymbidium dayanum 鳳蘭 in chinese, is a species ofCymbidium which blooms on a pendant inflorescence.

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DescriptionEdit

Plant has pendant inflorescence and blooms from summer to fall. Inflorescence consist of around ten 5 cm fragrant flowers.

DistributionEdit

Cymbidium dayanum is found in evergreen lowland forests in Assam, India; eastern Himalayas; Sikkim; Thailand; Cambodia; Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, China; Vietnam; Borneo; Malaysia; the Philippines; Sulawesi; Sumatra; Ryukyu Islands and Japan at elevations of 300 to 1600 meters

CultureEdit

Plant should be grown in intermediate to warm areas with medium to bright light. Plant may also be grown cool. Pot with bark and perlite. Plant prefers dry periods between watering. Reduce watering during the winter. Water about once a week.

VariantsEdit

Image	Name	Description
	Cymbidium dayanum var angustifolium	Red lip, pink petals and sepals

NamingEdit

Common Name: Phoenix Orchid, Tree Orchid, Day's Cymbidium

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Cymbidium cyperifolium var. szechuanicum

Cymbidium cyperifolium, var. szechuanicum

foto C. Solimbergo

taxonomy	described by	(Lindley)  Wallich, Nathaniel
	published in	Numerical list of dried specimen  n. 7373    1828
var. szechuanicum	described by	(Wu  &  Chen)  Chen, Xin-qi  &  Liu, Zhong-jian
	published in	Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica  41 ( 1 ) : 83 - 84    2003
	family	Orchidaceae
	subfamily	Epidendroideae
	tribe	Cymbidieae
	subtribe	Cymbidiinae
	genus	Cymbidium  Swartz 1799
	chromosomes	40  (Tropicos / IPCN)
native of	origins	forests in Bhutan, China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan)
	altitude	600 - 1600 m (1980 - 5300 ft)
	habitat	temperate to cool
		informations on the climate, the weather station Dadukou (Sichuan (Szechuan), China
		temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1100 m (3630 ft)
	life form	geophyte
	brightness	partial shade
inflorescence	length	7 cm (2.8"), basal
	nr flowers	3 - 4, fragrants
	size	single flower  5,5 L 5,5 cm  ( 2.2" L 2.2") - inflorescence  12 L 10 cm  (4.8" L 4")
	duration	inflorescence ≈ 60days
	time	from bloom to birth, ≈ 180 days
CITIES	appendix	II

Common Name The Cyperus-Like Leafed Cymbidium - In China Suo Ye Lan

Flower Size 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm]

Found in Nepal, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan China, Vietnam and the Philippines in shady tropical rainforests at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial on steep banks with small, inconspicuous pseudobulbs carrying 7 to 10, distichous, held in a weak fan, narrowly elliptic, acute, erect, entire, obscurely jointed leaves that blooms in the fall and early winter on a 3.2" [8 cm] long, 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence with fragrant [lemon] flowers

Synonyms Cymbidium carnosum Griff. 1851; Cymbidium cyperifolium subsp. indochinense Du Puy & P.J.Cribb 1988; Cymbidium cyperifolium var. szechuanicum (Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen) S.C.Chen & Z.J.Liu 2003; Cymbidium faberi var. szechuanicum (Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen) Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen 1980; Cymbidium szechuanicum Y.S.Wu & S.C.Chen 1966; Cymbidium viridiflorum Griff. 1848; Cyperorchis wallichii Blume 1859; Geodorum longifolium (Roxb.) Voigt 1845; Limodorum cyperifolium Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1833; Limodorum longifolium Roxb. 1832

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing ok; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 6 1978 photo fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 24 Schlechter/Brieger 1991; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo ok; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 5 1998 as C cyprifolium; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce And Cribb 2002; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007 photos fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide to var szechuanium;

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