Cymbidium finlaysonianum Lindl.

Cymbidium finlaysonianum Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 164 (1833).

Cymbidium finlaysonianum
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
Cymbidium finlaysonianum Lindl., Photos by BaNa GH
Cymbidium finlaysonianum Lindl., Video by BaNa GH
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
Cymbidium finlaysonianum Lindl., Photos by Chu Xuan Canh

its native range is Indo-China to Malesia.

Latin Name: 

Cymbidium finlaysonianum Lindl.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Cymbidium tricolor Miq.
Cymbidium wallichii Lindl.

Vietnamese name:

Kiếm tiên vũ, Kiếm vàng, Hoàng kiếm lan

English Name:

Finlayson's Cymbidium (English Orchid Collector in India 1800's).

Thailand name:

Kare Karawn pakpet

Description: 

With short, conical-ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped completely by several leaf bases and carrying to 5 to 7, thick, fleshy, narrowly lanceolate, rounded and unequally bilobed apically, articulated to the base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a 60 to 150 cm long, slender, pendulous, laxly, many flowered inflorescence with inflated, basal floral sheaths and carrying fragrant flowers.

Distribution:

Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam (Ba Vì, Quảng Trị, Quảng Nam - Đà Nẵng, Nha Trang, Bình Định, Tây Nguyên).

Ecological:

A large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on large trees and old rubber trees or on exposed rocks, cliffs and rocky limestone outcrops with collected humus as a lithophyte at elevations around sea level to 1200 m in lowlands near the sea in exposed locations.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and spring.

Flower size:

6.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Plant should be grown in warm areas with medium light. Pot with bark and perlite. Plant prefers dry periods between watering. Reduce watering during the winter. Water about once a week. Plant can also be mounted.

Type:

Finlayson, G. [7358] K000852999 holotype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/625003-1
powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:625003-1
- orchidspecies.com/cymfinlatsoniana.htm.
orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Cymbidium_finlaysonianum

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