Cymbidium elegans: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:21, 2 April 2010

Common Name: The Elegant Cymbidium
Scented: yes, slightly scented
Light Requirements: partial shade
Temperature Requirements: cold to intermediate
Blooms: autumn to early winter
Flower Size: 3.75cm
Synonyms: Cymbidium densiflorum Griff. 1851 ; Cymbidium longifolium D.Don 1825; Cyperorchis elegans [Lindley] Blume 1849; Limodorum angustifolium Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1833

Found as a large sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on trees and rocks overhanging streams in shady locations at elevations of 1500 to 2800 metres from the Chinese Himalayas, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Myanmar with ovoid, bilaterally compressed pseudobulbs and carrying narrowly linear-elliptic, acute, hooded and unequally bilobed apically leaves articulated 4 to 12cm from the pseudobulb that blooms on an arching to pendant, slender, to 60cm long, racemose, densely many flowered (20 to 35) inflorescence with slightly scented, close set flowers that do not open well, arising from the lower leaf axils occurring in the fall to early winter.

<googlemap version="0.9" lat="-13.923404" lon="-117.070312" type="terrain" zoom="2" width="500" height="350" selector="no" controls="none"> 35.861660, 104.195397, Chinese Himalayas 26.200604, 92.937574, Assam, India 25.95,92.2, Eastern Himalayas 28.394857, 84.124008, Nepal 27.514162, 90.433601, Bhutan 27.730627, 88.633784, Sikkim, India 21.913965, 95.956223, Myanmar </googlemap>

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 [[File:Cymbidium_elegans.jpg|thumb|Cymbidium elegans]]
-'''Common Name:''' The Hairy-Lip Epidendrum<br />
+'''Common Name:''' The Elegant Cymbidium<br />
-'''Scented:''' yes<br />
+'''Scented:''' yes, slightly scented<br />
-'''Light Requirements:''' partial sun<br />
+'''Light Requirements:''' partial shade<br />
-'''Temperature Requirements:''' intermediate to hot<br />
+'''Temperature Requirements:''' cold to intermediate<br />
-'''Blooms:''' winter and early spring<br />
+'''Blooms:''' autumn to early winter<br />
-'''Flower Size:''' 8cm to 17cm<br />
+'''Flower Size:''' 3.75cm<br />
-'''Synonyms:''' ''Auliza cilaris'' [L.] Salisb. 1812; ''Aulizeum cilare'' Lindley ex Stein ?; ''Coilostylis cuspidata'' (Lodd.) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004; ''Coilostylis emarginata'' Raf. 1836; ''Epidendrum ciliare'' L. 1759; ''Epidendrum cuspidatum'' Lodd. 1817 ; ''Encyclia ciliaris'' (L.) Lemée 1955; ''Epidendrum ciliare var. brachysepalum'' Rchb.f 1847; ''Epidendrum ciliare var. minor'' hort. ex Stein 1892; ''Epidendrum ciliare var. oerstedii'' (Rchb. f.) L.O. Williams; ''Epidendrum ciliare var. squamatum'' Schnee 1953; ''Epidendrum ciliare var. viscidum'' (Lindl.) Lindl. 1853; ''Epidendrum luteum'' hort. ex Planch. 1858; ''Epidendrum sanctalucianum'' H.G. Jones 1975; ''Epidendrum santalucianum'' H.G. Jones 1975; ''Epidendrum viscidium'' Lindley 1840; ''Phaedrosanthus ciliaris'' (L.) Kuntze 1904
+'''Synonyms:''' Cymbidium ''densiflorum'' Griff. 1851 ; Cymbidium ''longifolium'' D.Don 1825; Cyperorchis ''elegans'' [Lindley] Blume 1849; Limodorum ''angustifolium'' Buch.-Ham. ex Lindl. 1833
-Native to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Leeward Island, Puerto Rico, Windward Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in wet montane forests high in trees at elevations of 500m to 1000m, grows as a hot to warm growing, medium to large sized epiphyte and sometimes as a lithophyte with one or 2, elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous leaves on a clavate, compressed above, subterete below pseudobulbs with 5 to 6 nodes covered by close distichous, imbricating sheaths and blooms in the winter and early spring with fragrant flowers on a terminal, to 30cm long, racemose, few to several [5 to 6] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb.
+Found as a large sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on trees and rocks overhanging streams in shady locations at elevations of 1500 to 2800 metres from the Chinese Himalayas, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Myanmar with ovoid, bilaterally compressed pseudobulbs and carrying narrowly linear-elliptic, acute, hooded and unequally bilobed apically leaves articulated 4 to 12cm from the pseudobulb that blooms on an arching to pendant, slender, to 60cm long, racemose, densely many flowered (20 to 35) inflorescence with slightly scented, close set flowers that do not open well, arising from the lower leaf axils occurring in the fall to early winter.
 <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-13.923404" lon="-117.070312" type="terrain" zoom="2" width="500" height="350" selector="no" controls="none">
-.634501, -102.552784, Mexico
+.861660, 104.195397, Chinese Himalayas
-.783471, -90.230759, Guatemala
+.200604, 92.937574, Assam, India
-.189877, -88.49765, Belize
+.95,92.2, Eastern Himalayas
-.794185, -88.89653, El Salvador
+.394857, 84.124008, Nepal
-.199999, -86.241905, Honduras
+.514162, 90.433601, Bhutan
-.865416, -85.207229, Nicaragua
+.730627, 88.633784, Sikkim, India
-.748917, -83.753428, Costa Rica
+.913965, 95.956223, Myanmar
-.537981, -80.782127, Panama
--49.686944, 178.809444, Leeward Island
-.220833, -66.590149, Puerto Rico
--49.673611, 178.723889, Windward Islands
-.691803, -61.222503, Trinidad & Tobago
-.933889, -53.125782, French Guiana
-.919305, -56.027783, Suriname
-.860416, -58.93018, Guyana
-.42375, -66.58973, Venezuela
-.570868, -74.297333, Colombia
--1.831239, -78.183406, Ecuador
--9.189967, -75.015152, Peru
--16.290154, -63.588653, Bolivia
--14.235004, -51.92528, Brazil
 </googlemap>