- Family : ORCHIDACEAE
(Orchid Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ORCHID FAMILY (ऑर्चिड फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Orchidaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pholidota pallida Lindl.
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1200m, in shade of Shola on trees.
- Key identification features : Epiphytic pseudobulbous herb, pendulous. Bulbs ovate-cylindrical. Leaf single, elliptic-lanceolate, acute at apex, basally 3-nerved, narrowing in to petiole. Inflorescence arises at top of the pseudobulb, pendulous. Flowers 2-3 mm long, enclosed in persistent floral bracts
- Flower, Fruit : August-May
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Pune district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Dhenkanal district, Keonjhar district
- Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 144
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pholidota pallida. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.
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