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Orchid Species: Cymbidium tortisepalum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cymbidium tortisepalum is an orchid species identified by Fukuy. in 1934.
ORIGIN: Found in southcentral China and Taiwan in open forests, forest margins, grassy slopes, rocky and shrubby slopes at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to ovoid, small pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying 5 to 7, stiff to flexuous, lorate, thinly leathery, not articulate at the base, serrulate, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the winter on a basal, erect, 8 to 12 [20 to 30 cm] long, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence with several sheaths on the peduncle and linear-lanceolate, exceeding the ovary floral bracts and carrying fragrant, color variable flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.4 to 3 inches [6 to 7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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