Cymbidium aliciae Quisumb. 1940 SECTION Borneense Du Puy & Cribb 1988 Photo by Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

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Common Name or Meaning Alicia's Cymbidium [Alicia Day, American Orchid Enthusiast in the Philippines 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Sulawesi and the Philippines on the island of Luzon in montane forests at elevations around 300 to 2750 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing semi-terrestrial without pseudobulbs, but has pale green, 8 to 10, clustered, slightly leathery, curved, linear, basally grooved, acute apically leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a racemose, erect, few flowered, 7.6 to 8" [19 to 20 cm] long inflorescence and carries to 10, slightly fragrant flowers

Synonyms Cymbidium cyperifolium var. aliciae (Quisumb.) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 drawing/photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 4 2000 photo; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007 photo/drawing ok;

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