Pholidota imbricata (Roxb.) Lindl.

Description:  Found in central China and Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Moluccas, Sulawesi, the Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Santa Cruz, Vanuatu and Queensland Australia in evergreen lowland forests on rock outcrops along streams and rivers as a small to medium sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte and lithophyte at elevations of sealevel to 1700 meters in filtered light with clustered, conical, angular, wrinkled or sunken, dull pale green to dull brown pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, sub-plicate, ovate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, prominently veined, gradually narrowing into the pseudo-petiolate base, dark green leaf with a lighter underside that can have red spots. racemose inflorescence that has a zigzag, flexuous rachis with large concave bracts carrying up to 50 fragrant flowers that spiral around the inflorescence arising from papery floral bracts and occuring on a developing pseudobulb.
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Photorights: Marpha Telepova Texier
  • Size:  Rhizome creeping, rather robust, 5–7 mm in diam., with many nodes, densely covered with scaly sheaths, with many roots. Pseudobulbs contiguous, suboblong, (2.5–)4–8 × 1–1.5 cm, obscurely obtusely 4-ridged, apex 1-leaved. Leaf blade ob-long-oblanceolate, oblong, or nearly broadly oblanceolate, 7– 25(–35) × 2–8.5 cm, thinly leathery, base cuneate, apex shortly acuminate or acute; petiole 1.5–5 cm. Inflorescence arising from young pseudobulbs with nearly mature leaf at anthesis, usually 25–50 cm; rachis nodding, 5–30 cm, densely many flowered; floral bracts persistent, often conduplicate, broadly ovate, 4–7 × 4–8 mm, with many dense veins, flowers 1.25 cm
  • Collector/Witnesses:  Marpha Telepova Texier, JH 2013, SV 2014
  • Year Collected:  2012
  • Growing Media:  wood/pot
  • Flowering Period:  august - october
  • Color:  white flowers, bracts brown with any dense fine veins. Lateral sepals free at base.
  • Water:  1 – 2 time daily
  • Light:  medium – bright light partial shade
  • Temperature:  10 - 32°C