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What kind of orchid variety is the Ruziniu Cymbidium kanran?

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A Cymbidium sinense with plum-petal form, a famous variety. Going back to the early 1990s, a batch of wild-collected Cymbidium sinense from Guangxi quietly found a home in Nanhai; of course, no one at the time imagined that a rising star was hidden among them. Several months passed, the Lunar New Year arrived, and this batch of Cymbidium sinense bloomed in season to mark the new year. A fellow orchid enthusiast was surprised to find...
This variety is a new odd-flowered form of Cymbidium kanran. Its main characteristic is that near the tip of the petal (the lip's side lobes) on the inner side it becomes stamen-like, causing the petals to form long strip-shaped deep pouches that wrap around the column, closely resembling ox horns, while the lip is elongated and does not curl back.

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