目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: 种子5份; DNA材料4份; DNA5份; 离体材料151份;

• 科:兰科    Orchidaceae
• 属:兰属   Cymbidium
• 种:虎头兰   Cymbidium hookerianum

15. Cymbidium hookerianum H. G. Reichenbach, Gard. Chron. 1866: 7. 1866. 虎头兰 hu tou lan Cymbidium giganteum Wallich ex Lindley var. hookerianum (H. G. Reichenbach) Bois; C. grandiflorum Griffith; Cyperorchis grandiflora (Griffith) Schlechter.Plants epiphytic or lithophytic, autotrophic. Pseudobulbs narrowly ellipsoid to narrowly ovoid, bilaterally flattened, 3-8 × 1.5-3 cm, partially enclosed in leaf bases. Leaves 4-6(-8), lorate, 35-60(-80) × 1.4-2.3 cm, articulate (4-)6-10 cm from base, apex acute. Inflorescence arising from near base of pseudobulb, arching or suberect, 45-60(-70) cm; rachis 7-14-flowered; floral bracts ovate-triangular, 3-4 mm. Flowers slightly fragrant, 11-12 cm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 30-50 mm; sepals and petals apple-green or yellowish green with a few deep red spots or occasionally tinged pale reddish brown at base; lip white or cream-yellow with chestnut spots and striations on lateral lobes and mid-lobe, becoming purplish red following pollination. Sepals suboblong, 50-55 × 15-17 mm, apex acute. Petals narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 50-55 × 10-13 mm, apex acute; lip subelliptic, 45-50 mm, base fused to basal margins of column for 4-4.5 mm, 3-lobed; lateral lobes erect, ciliate; mid-lobe recurved, margin erose and undulate; disk sparsely minutely papillate or puberulent and densely so toward apices of lateral lobes, with 2 shortly hairy lamellae extending from base of lip to base of mid-lobe. Column arcuate, 33-40 mm, papillate or puberulent near base on ventral surface; pollinia 2, subtriangular. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, 90-110 × ca. 40 mm. Fl. Jan-Apr, fr. Jun-Aug. 2n = 38*, 40*.Trees in forests, rocks along valleys; 1100-2700 m. S Guangxi, SW Guizhou, SW Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, N Vietnam].【引自：Flora of China】

附生草本；假鳞茎狭椭圆形至狭卵形，长3-8厘米，宽1.5-3厘米，大部分包藏于叶基之内。叶4-6 (-8)枚，长35-60 (-80)厘米，宽1.4-2. 3厘米，带形，先端急尖，关节位于距基部（4-）6-10厘米处。花葶从假鳞茎下部穿鞘而出，外弯或近直立，长45-60（-70）厘米；总状花序具7-14朵花；花苞片卵状三角形，长3-4毫米；花梗和子房长3-5厘米；花大，直径达11-12厘米，有香气；萼片与花瓣苹果绿或黄绿色，基部有少数深红色斑点或偶有淡红褐色晕，唇瓣白色至奶油黄色，侧裂片与中裂片上有栗色斑点与斑纹，在授粉后整个唇瓣变为紫红色；萼片近长圆形，长5-5.5厘米，宽1.5-1.7厘米；花瓣狭长圆状倒披针形，与萼片近等长，宽1-1.3厘米；唇瓣近椭圆形，长4.5-5厘米，3裂，基部与蕊柱合生达4-4.5毫米；侧裂片直立，多少有小乳突或短毛，尤其接近顶端处，边缘有缘毛；中裂片外弯，亦具小乳突，有时散生有短毛，边缘啮蚀状并呈波状；唇盘上2条纵褶片从基部延伸至中裂片基部以上，沿褶片生有短毛；蕊柱长3.3-4厘米，向前弯曲，腹面近基部有乳突或少数短毛；花粉团2个，近三角形。蒴果狭椭圆形，长9-11厘米，宽约4厘米。花期1-4月。 【引自：中国植物志】