Cymbidium erythrostylum Rolfe 1905 SECTION Annamaea Hunt 1970

Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Musia Stagg.

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Common Name The Red Column Cymbidium

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Vietnam at elevations around 1500 meters, where it can be encountered on trees, in the ground or on rocks, and is a very forgiving plant that can be grown many ways. This species has narrow-ovoid, bilaterally flattened pseudobulbs with 2 to 3, scarious with age cataphylls and carries, 6 to 8, thin, narrowly linear-obovate, arched, unequally apiculate apice leaves.

It is part of the SECTION Annamaea and so is best grown cool and will bloom in the late summer and fall on a basal, erect or arching, 2' [60 cm] long, racemose scape with basal sheaths and 4 to 10, long-lasting, non-fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Cyperorchis erythrostyla (Rolfe) Schltr. 1924; Cymbidium erythrostylum f. luteoalbum Grüss & Roeth 2010; Cymbidium erythrostylum var magnificum Hort 1931

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 11 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 11 1961 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 #5 1968 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 8 1968 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 9 1970; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 4 1978 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 55 No 1 1991 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 25 1520 - 1584 Brieger 1991 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 65 No 9 1996 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #3 1998 photo fide; The Genus Cymbidium Du Puy & Cribb 2007 photo/drawing fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #1 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 76 #3 2012 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 77 #2 2013 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #1 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #12 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Supplement Cymbidiums Vol 87 #10 2018 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #1 2020 photo fide

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