Cymbidium canaliculatum
channelled boat-lip orchid
Family OrchidaceaeAlso called tiger boat-lip orchid, native cymbidium, tiger orchid
About
The channelled boat-lip orchid is an Australian epiphyte that forms clumps in the forks and hollows of trees. Each flowering stem can carry up to sixty fragrant, often spotted flowers.
Field notes
Morphology
Greyish-green pseudobulbs 80–120 mm long each carry two to six rigid, fleshy, curved leaves 300–500 mm long with a deep channel. Stems 200–400 mm long hold 5–60 flowers 25–45 mm across in olive green, yellow, brown or purple, often spotted or blotched, with a white to cream labellum marked red or purple.
Distribution & habitat
Tree forks and hollows in woodland and drier forest: the Kimberley in Western Australia, the north of the Northern Territory including Melville Island, and from Cape York Peninsula south to the Hunter River in New South Wales.
History & etymology
Robert Brown described it in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The epithet comes from Latin canaliculus, 'channel'.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- Australia
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
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