Cymbidium eburneum Lindl. 1847SECTION Cyperorchis Hunt 1970
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Jean Claude George
Photo by E. Konstantinov and Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013
Common Name The Ivory-Colored Cymbidium - In China Du Zhan Chun
Flower Size 3.8 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm]
Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, southern China and Vietnam in highland cloud forests on trees and rocks at elevations around 300 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with clustered, ovoid to fusiform, bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several imbricating leaf bases carrying 9 to 17, distichous, linear-ligulate, thin textured, acute or acutely bifid leaves articulated 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] from the pseudobulb that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect to sub-erect, from within the leaf axils, 8 to 21 basally sheathed, 20 to 28" [50 to 70cm] long inflorescence with 1 to 2 [3], fragrant [lilacs], waxy, long-lasting flowers.
Synonyms; Cymbidium eburneum var. longzhouense Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen 2006; Cymbidium eburneum var philbrickianum Rchb.f 1886; Cymbidium eburneum var williamsianum Rchb.f 1881; Cymbidium syringodorum Griff. 1851; Cyperorchis eburnea (Lindl.) Schltr. 1924
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