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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