Cymbidium cochleare

香莎草蘭

Cymbidium cochleare Lindl.

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典藏標本

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相關資訊

Lindl. 1859. The journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 3: 28. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)

Cyperorchis babae Kudo ex Masam.

Masam. 1932. Journal of Japanese Botany 8: 258. (J. Jpn. Bot.)
Cymbidium kanran Makino var. babae (Kudo ex Masam.) S. S. Ying

Ying. 1977. Coloured illustrations of indigeous orchids of Taiwan 1: 440. (Col. Ill. Indig. Orch. Taiwan)
Cymbidium longifolium D. Don

Wu & Chen. 1980. Acta phytotaxonomica sinica eng 18: 304. (Acta Phytotax. Sin.)
Cymbidium babae (Kudo ex Masam.) Masam.

Masamune. 1933. Trop. Hort. 3: 333.

herb

Tufted epiphytes. Pseudobulbs obscured by overlapping leaf sheaths.
Leaves 9-18, linear, ca. 100 cm long, 1-1.2 cm wide, coriaceous, apex acuminate, attenuate at base and articulated with sheath; sheaths ca. 4 cm long.
Peduncle lateral form leaf-axils, pendulous, dark brown, more than 30 cm long, with several well-spaced sheaths near base, sheaths tubular-linear, 10-12 cm long, 1 cm wide; raceme with many flowers; bracts greenish, ovate-lanceolate, 3 mm long, 2 mm wide; pedicel and ovary pale red-brown, 1.8 cm long. Flowers pendulous, sepals and petals connivent, spreading apically, tawnybrown; sepals oblanceolate, 4.3 cm long, 8-9 mm wide, acute; petals similar but narrower, 4.3 cm long, 5-6 mm wide, with minute red dots; lip united basally to base and sides of column, not mobile, obovate, 4.3 cm long, 2.6 cm wide, 3-lobed, base narrowed into claw, sidelobes erect, triangular, with many minute red-brown spots, midlobe nearly orbicular, ca. 7 mm across, slightly undulate, with red-brown spots, disc with 2 longitudinal keels; column slender, greenish, terete, ca. 3.5 cm long; minutely hirsute on lower ventral side; anther white, orbicular, beaked; pollinia 2, deeply cleft.