Cymbidium macrorhizon is very rare

[xibeifengcun]

Cymbidium aphyllum Ames & Schlechter (1919), not (Roxburgh) Swartz (1799); C. szechuanense S. Y. Hu; Pachyrhizanthe aphyllum (Ames & Schlechter) Nakai; P. macrorhizon (Lindley) Nakai.
Plants terrestrial, mycotrophic, lacking green leaves and pseudobulbs. Rhizome subterranean, white, ascending or suberect, 5-10 × 0.3-0.7 cm, fleshy, often branched, several noded, slightly papillate, with 1 or 2 short roots to 1 cm. Inflorescence usually arising from apex of rhizome, erect, 11-18 cm or longer; peduncle usually purplish red or cream-yellow tinged purplish red at base, green above, with several sheaths 1-2.5 cm; rachis 2-5-flowered; floral bracts linear-lanceolate, 6-11 mm. Flowers 3-4 cm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 20-25 mm; sepals and petals white or yellowish with a purplish red longitudinal line; lip white or yellowish with purplish red markings. Sepals narrowly obovate-oblong, 20-22 × 4-5 mm, apex acute. Petals narrowly elliptic, 15-18 × 5-6 mm, apex acute; lip subovate, 13-16 mm, not fused to basal margins of column, slightly 3-lobed; lateral lobes erect; mid-lobe slightly recurved, triangular-ovate, 5-7 × 4-6 mm; disk papillate, with 2 longitudinal lamellae extending from base of lip to base of mid-lobe; lamellae convergent at their apices and forming a short tube. Column slightly arcuate, ca. 10 mm, narrowly winged; pollinia 4, in 2 pairs, broadly ovoid. Capsule erect, green. Fl. Jun-Aug. 2n = 38.
Forests along riversides, forest margins, open grassy slopes; 700-1500 m. Chongqing, SW Guizhou, SW Sichuan, NE Yunnan [N India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand].

[katrina]

When you say you "collected" the cyms....is that to mean you collected them from their native habitat? And they are rare and hard to find?

If that's the case...then perhaps what you've done is illegal.

And if it you don't have the proper documentation, then selling and shipping them is definitely illegal.

[Cym Ladye]

Originally Posted by katrina

When you say you "collected" the cyms....is that to mean you collected them from their native habitat? And they are rare and hard to find?

If that's the case...then perhaps what you've done is illegal.

And if it you don't have the proper documentation, then selling and shipping them is definitely illegal.

I cannot see where the word "collected" is in this post, but the post also appears to have been edited. Possibly the word was removed?

I totally agree with Katrina on this post. It is of interest to learn the description of this plant, although it was taken virtually word for word from the original description of the species.

Not only is this species VERY difficult to find in the wild, possibly because it has been stripped from many areas by unscrupulous collectors, but is virtually impossible to grow under domestic conditions because of its unique fungal requirements. If xibeifengcun has posted this description in an effort to sell this species, as he has other species, I urge him to remove the post. In any case, I hope no readers of this post fall prey to wanting to buy one.

[katrina]

The original post stated that he/she had spent a lot of time "collecting" the plants and he/she offered to sell some to anyone who was interested.

[xibeifengcun]

thanks. I had remove the actual picture.