Pholidota
The genus Pholidota belongs to the family Orchidaceaeand the subtribe Coelogyninae. Genus that are part of this subtribe are usually terrestrial or epiphytic. There is great variation among leaf types of this genus; however, the flowers are usually small to large and appear upside down.
Species of this genus can be found from India to South China, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Pacific Islands and all way through to Australia.
Species of this genus can be found from India to South China, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Pacific Islands and all way through to Australia.
DESCRIPTION (FROM FLORA OF CHINA)
Herbs, epiphytic or lithophytic, pendulous or erect. Pseudobulbs contiguous or well spaced on creeping rhizomes, ovoid to subcylindric, rarely connected to each other at both ends and stemlike or each connected at base by a short rhizome to middle part of another pseudobulb, apex 1- or 2-leaved. Leaves narrowly elliptic, ovate, or oblong, leathery, shortly petiolate. Inflorescence terminal, emerging from apex of pseudobulb, distichous, pendulous, slender, racemose, laxly or densely many flowered; rachis often slightly flexuose; floral bracts persistent or deciduous, distichous, large, concave. Flowers resupinate, often not opening widely, white, small, fleshy. Dorsal sepal concave or convex, broadly ovate to elliptic; lateral sepals ovate to ovate-oblong, concave or convex, often carinate. Petals ovate to linear, often smaller than sepals; lip sessile, with a saccate basal hypochile and subentire or 3- or 4-lobed; epichile deflexed; disk sometimes with thick veins or lamellae. Column short, upper part winged or hooded, foot absent; anther incumbent; pollinia 4, waxy, subequal in size, in 2 pairs, connected by inconspicuous caudicles to sticky material; rostellum rather large. Capsule relatively small, often ribbed
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