Pholidota articulata Lindl. 1828 SECTION Articulatae [Rchb.f] Pfitzer
Photo by © Hendrik Jacobs
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Inflorescence and Plant with Flowers
Photo by Jean Claude George
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Common Name The Articulated Pholidota - In China Jie Jing Shi Xian Tao
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, western Himalayas, India, Tibet, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra in semideciduous and evergreen montane forests and highland primary cloud forests at altitudes of 300 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte that has the oddity of having the new pseudobulb arise from the apex of last years mature pseudobulb and has ovate to linear-lanceolate leaves with prominent veins and blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, drooping, 6" to 11" long, fractiflex inflorescence with broad, brownish floral bracts that drop away as the many fragrant flowers smelling of musk open.
Synonyms Coelogyne articulata (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1864; Coelogyne griffithii Hook. f. 1890; Coelogyne khasyana Rchb. f. 1861; Pholidota articulata var minahassae J.J.Sm. 1919; Pholidota articulata var. obovata (Hook. f.) T. Tang & F.T. Wang 1951; Pholidota decurva Ridl. 1896; Pholidota griffithii Hkr. 1889; Pholidota khasiyana Rchb. f. 1856; Pholidota lagardii Rolfe 1893; Pholidota lugardii Rolfe 1893; Pholidota minahassae schlechter 1911; Pholidota obovata Hook. f. 1890; Pholidota repens Rolfe 1891
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