Large Root Cymbidium is a leafless terrestrial orchid, growing up to a
foot tall. This picture is the first record of this orchid from Jharkand!
Rhizomes are scaly, fleshy, branched. Scape is greenish with sheaths.
Inflorescence is very lax, with 4-8 large flowers. Bracts are small,
lanceshaped, 5-12 mm long. Sepals are pale brownish-olivgreen with some
purple, pointed, up to 3 x 0.5 cm. Petals are somewhat shorter and
broader, curved over the column. Lip is obscurely 3-lobed, whitish, marked
with crimson blotches, ovate in outline, 2 cm long. Side-lobes are narrow,
rounded, disk with a pair of thick ridges between the side lobes. Column
is up to 1.5 cm long, with inner surface crimson. Flowering: July-August.
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar
Photographed in Jharkhand.
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