Pholidota imbricata Hook.

국표에 없다.

Common Name The Overlapping Shingle Pholidota - In Australia Rattlesnake Orchid - In Papua New Guinea The Necklace Orchid - In China Su Bao Shi Xian Tao

Flower Size to 1/2" [1.25 cm]

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 and blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a terminal, smooth, terete, erect-arcuate then drooping, 20" [50 cm] long, 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.

IOSPE PHOTOS (orchidspecies.com)

It is a medium sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte and lithophyte, which reaching a height up to 30 cm, with clustered, conical, angular, wrinkled or sunken, dull pale green to dull brown, 6-8 cm long pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, sub-plicate, ovate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, prominently veined, gradually narrowing into the pseudo-petiolate base, dark green, 15-30 cm long leaf with a lighter underside that can have red spots.

 The Overlapping Shingle Pholidota blooms with a terminal, smooth, terete, erect-arcuate then drooping, 50 cm long, 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 occurring on a developing pseudobulb. The tiny flowers are 0.6 cm in diameter. They can have a musky scent or be odorless and are almost covered by flower sheaths. They are variable in colors, petals of both whorls can be greenish-white, brownish or pale, flesh-colored pink. The lip has bumps in the colors from yellow to orange.

 

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