Cymbidium daweishanense G.Q.Zhang & Z.J.Liu 2018 SECTION Cyperorchis Hunt 1970
Photos by © Ralf Schneider
TYPE Drawing by © G.Q.Zhang & Z.J.Liu 2018 Ralf Schneider
Common Name or Meaning The Daweishan Cymbidium [A mountain and Nature reserve in Yunnan province of China]
Flower Size [4.5 to 6 cm]
Found in Yunnan province of China ontrees and rocks at forest margins and in forests at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing epiphyte with ovoid, bilaterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf bases and carrying 5 to 11, distichous,, lorate, acute, articulate, 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm] from the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a suberect to arching, axillary, from within the sheaths at the base of the pseudobulb, brownish, [60 to 80 cm] long, 9 to 13 flowered inflorescence with 7 to 9 leaf-like, acute, lanceolate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers .
"The new plant is similar to C. erythraeum, in the SECTION Cyperorchis, but differs in having smaller flowers, a lip free from even the basal margins of column and a glabrous column with many purple blotches." G.Q.Zhang & Z.J.Liu 2018
"Cymbidium section Cyperorchis has two cleft pollinia and usually a lip fused basally to the basal margins of the column for 2–6 (-10) mm. The new species is consistent with the other species of C. subgenus Cyperorchis (Liu et al. 2006), but its lip is free and it has smaller flowers, a glabrous column with many purple blotches and a trilobed lip, which distinguish it from all other known species of the section." G.Q.Zhang & Z.J.Liu 2018
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Phytotaxa 374: 254 G.Q.Zhang & Z.J.Liu 2018 drawing/photos fide
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