Cymbidium lancifolium

Cymbidium lancifolium Hook., Exot. Fl. 1(4): t. 51 (1823). 

Cymbidium lancifolium Hook., Photo by Américo Pereira

its native range is Tropical & Subtropical Asia.

Latin Name: 

Cymbidium lancifolium Hook.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Cymbidiopsis lancifolia (Hook.) H.J.Chowdhery

Cymbidium aspidistrifolium Fukuy.

Cymbidium caulescens Ridl.

Cymbidium cuspidatum Blume

Cymbidium gibsonii Lindl. & Paxton

Cymbidium javanicum Blume

Cymbidium kerrii Rolfe ex Downie

Cymbidium lancifolium var. aspidistrifolium (Fukuy.) S.S.Ying

Cymbidium lancifolium f. aspidistrifolium (Fukuy.) T.P.Lin

Cymbidium lancifolium var. papuanum (Schltr.) S.S.Ying

Cymbidium lancifolium var. syunitianum (Fukuy.) S.S.Ying

Cymbidium maclehoseae S.Y.Hu

Cymbidium multiradicatum Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen

Cymbidium nagifolium Masam.

Cymbidium nagifolium f. conforme Suetsugu

Cymbidium papuanum Schltr.

Cymbidium rhizomatosum Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen

Cymbidium syunitianum Fukuy.

VietNamese name:

Lục lan, Thổ nhĩ lan, Kiếm lá giáo.

English Name:

The Lance-Leafed Cymbidium in Japan Nagi-ran, Otome-nagi-ran - Akizaki-nagi-ran.

Chinese name:

Tu Er Lan - 竹柏蘭

Description: 

In broad-leafed hill forests at elevations of 1400 to 2300 m as a medium sized, cold growing lithophyte on limestone outcroppings and cliffs or terrestrial in damp humus filled crevasses or in rich soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses.

Distribution:

Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam (Lào Cai, Tam Đảo, Ninh Bình, Tây Nguyên, Lâm Đồng), West Himalaya.

Ecological:

In broad-leafed hill forests at elevations of 1400 to 2300 m as a medium sized, cold growing lithophyte on limestone outcroppings and cliffs or terrestrial in damp humus filled crevasses or in rich soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

5.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Plant should be grown in cool to intermediate areas with medium to bright light. Pot with coconut bark and perlite or with lavarock, perlite, and medium fir bark. Plant prefers dry periods between watering. Reduce watering during the winter. Water about once a week.

Typus:

Wallich, N. [s.n.], Nepal K000395361 Unknown type material

Kerr, A.F.G. [227], Thailand K000891113 Unknown type material

Kerr, A.F.G. [227], Thailand K000891114 Unknown type material

Uses: 

Cough, tracheal branch inflammation, injury (whole tree).

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/625062-1

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:625062-1

- orchidspecies.com/cymlancifolium.htm. 

- https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Pleione_hookeriana

- orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Cymbidium_lancifolium

- travaldo.blogspot.com/2018/12/pleione-hookeriana-care-and-culture.html

- efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028807