Cymbidium hookerianum Rchb.f.

in Gard. Chron.: 7 (1866).

Synonymes

Cymbidium giganteum var. hookerianum (Rchb.f.) Boissier in Orchid.: 119 (1893).

Cymbidium grandiflorum Griff. in Notulae 3: 342 (1851).

Cyperorchis grandiflora (Griff.) Schltr. in Fedde Repert. 20: 107 (1924).

Répartition

Bhoutan, Chine, Inde, Népal, Sikkim, Thaïlande, Tibet, Vietnam.

Chine : Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Inde : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.

Floraison : JFMA________. Altitude de 500 à 2600 m.

Description sommaire

Plante épiphyte, lithophyte. Taille de 45 à 70 cm. Feuilles de 4 à 8, de 0-800 × 14-21 mm, elliptiques, linéaires. Bractées triangulaires. Fleurs de 6 à 15, rouges, vertes, brunes. Sépale dorsal lancéolé, oblong, de 56-60 × 17-19 mm. Sépales latéraux lancéolés, oblongs, de 56-60 × 17-19 mm. Pétales lancéolés, oblongs, de 53-56 × 12-14 mm. Labelle trilobé. Chromosomes : 2n=40.

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