Pholidota guibertiae Finet 1910 SECTION Articulatae

Inflorescence Photos by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

Common Name Guibert's Pholidota [French Orchid Enthusiast early 1900's]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in south Vietnam at elevations of 200 to 1150 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with rather slender, irregularily wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying linear-lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, plicate, 7 to 9 prominent nerved, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a flexuous, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence that arises with half developed leaves and has, obovate floral bracts that are deciduous and fall before flowering and carries wide open, non resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 3 Revisions in the Genus Pholidota De Vogel 1988; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994;

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