Cymbidium mannii H. G. Reichenbach, Flora 55: 274. 1872. 

 硬叶兰 ying ye lan Cymbidium bicolor Lindley subsp. obtusum Du Puy & P. J. Cribb; C. flaccidum Schlechter.

Plants epiphytic, autotrophic. Pseudobulbs narrowly ovoid, slightly bilaterally flattened, 2.5–5 × 2–3 cm, enclosed in leaf bases. Leaves (4 or)5–7, lorate, 22–80 × 1–1.8 cm, thickly leathery, apex acute and unequally 2-lobed, sometimes emarginate; basal sheaths with black membranous margins 1–1.5 mm wide. Inflorescence arising from within sheaths at base of pseudobulb, pendulous or arching, 17–28 cm; rachis usually 10–20-flowered; floral bracts subtriangular, 1.5–4.5 mm. Flowers medium-sized, 3–4 cm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 10–15 mm; sepals and petals yellowish to whitish, with a central purplish red or maroon-brown longitudinal stripe 3–4 mm wide; lip white or cream-yellow, spotted, striped, or sometimes heavily tinged purple-red or purple-brown except at base and margins. Sepals spreading, narrowly oblong, 14–20 × 3–5 mm, apex obtuse to acute. Petals narrowly subelliptic, 12–17 × 3–4 mm, apex obtuse to subacute; lip subovate, 12–14 mm, not fused to basal margins of column, base slightly saccate, 3-lobed; lateral lobes shorter than or ca. as long as column and anther; mid-lobe recurved; disk minutely papillate or puberulent, with 2 longitudinal lamellae slightly inflated toward base and apex. Column slightly arcuate, 8–12 mm, base with a very short foot; pollinia 2. Capsule subellipsoid, 35–50 × 25–30 mm. Fl. Mar–Apr, fr. Jul–Aug. 

 Trees in forests and thickets; 100–1600 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, SE and SW Yunnan [Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam].