果香兰（中国兰花）
Cymbidium suavissimum Sander ex C. Curtis in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 84: 137, 157. fig. 67. 1928; P. Taylor in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 180: t. 671. 1974; Du Puy et Cribb, Gen. Cymbidium 107. pl. 11. phot. 80, 81. fig. 22 (5). 1988;中国兰花(第二版) 57.图25.1993; 中国兰花全书80.图5-5. 1998.
Open forests; 700-1100 m. SW Guizhou, W Yunnan [Myanmar, N Vietnam]. |
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Plants lithophytic or terrestrial, autotrophic. Pseudobulbs subovoid, slightly bilaterally flattened, 5-6 × 2-3 cm, enclosed in leaf bases, surrounded by several purple sheaths when young. Leaves 5-7, arching, lorate, 40-70 × 2-3.5 cm, papery, rather soft, articulate 3-6 cm from base, apex acute. |
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Inflorescence arising from base of pseudobulb, usually suberect, 40-50 cm; rachis densely 20-50-flowered; floral bracts small. Flowers sweetly fruit-scented, 3-4 cm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 25-40 mm; sepals and petals usually dull yellowish, flushed reddish brown; lip white with purple-red markings. Sepals similar, subelliptic, 20-25 × 6-8 mm, apex obtuse. Petals oblong-elliptic, ca. 20 × 6 mm, apex obtuse; lip subovate, 16-17 × 10-12 mm, not fused to basal margins of column, 3-lobed; lateral lobes erect; mid-lobe recurved, broadly ovate; disk minutely papillate, with 2 lamellae slightly convergent at their apices. Column slightly arcuate, ca. 14 mm, with 2 small auricles placed laterally at base; pollinia 2. Fl. Jul-Aug. |
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