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Orchid Species: Pholidota globosa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pholidota globosa is an orchid species identified by (Blume) Lindl. in 1830.
ORIGIN: Found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Bali and Java in montane forests in bright light at elevations of 1400 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a thick, creeping and branching rhizome giving rise to 3/4 [2 cm] between each oval, smooth in youth and wrinkling with age pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally petiolate leaves that blooms in the late summer and winter on a thin, wiry, 8 [to 20 cm] long, erect then pendulous, fractiflex towards the apex, many flowered inflorescence enveloped by basally imbricate bracts and arising on a forming pseudobulb and carrying many closely set flowers that are held in two ranks.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [6.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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