Pholidota guibertiae Finet

 Pholidota guibertiae Finet, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 1: 255 (1910).

Pholidota guibertiae Finet, Photo by Khue Nguyen Phuc

 its native range is S. Vietnam.

Latinh Name: 

Pholidota guibertiae Finet

Synonym:

Coelogyne guibertiae (Finet) R.Rice

Vietnamese name:

Tục đoạn quế, Tục đoạn Guibert.

English Name:

Guibert's Pholidota (French Orchid Enthusiast early 1900's).

Description: 

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 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.

Distribution:

Vietnam (Hương Sơn, Hà Tĩnh, Hương Thủy, Thừa Thiên Huế).

Ecological:

At elevations of 200 to 1150 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte. 

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

1.3 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants are grown from cool to warm temperatures in partial shade to moderate lighting. Water regularly during the summer, about once every two days and gradually reduce in the winter. Water about once every two to three weeks and gradually increase watering as new roots begin to show. Pot in a well drain medium. Pot in a plastic or clay pot with a mix of fine fir bark, tree fern fibers, and perlite or pot.

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