Cymbidium lianpan

[ChipMolly]

Hi everyone. I'm hoping to find some answers regarding Cymbidium lianpan Tang et Wang ex Wu, nom. nud / nom. invalid.

This specific category has apparently been rendered invalid [Du Puy, Cribb The Genus Cymbidium, 2007] and [Liu, Chen, Ru The Genus Cymbidium in China], now considered synonymous with Cymbidium tortisepalum var tortisepalum.

However from comments by mainland Chinese growers, it would appear that Cymbidium lianpan continues to be used in the vernacular sense in mainland China, for what appears to be a morphologically and geographically distinctive population of goeringii/tortisepalum like plants from western Yunnan.

I have read comments on very old Flickr posts (dating and 8 years or more), that during the time of Du Puy and Cribb's new classification, Cym tortisepalum was understood to be mainly endemic to Taiwan and that the mainland chinese Yunannese form was very poorly known.

So it would seem that there might be a revisit of this specific category in the future? I'm curious if people who grow them find them morphologically and culturally distinctive.