Pholidota imbricata

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Pholidota imbricata']

• English: Common rattlesnake orchid
• 中文: 宿苞石仙桃, 粗脉石仙桃
• 中文（简体）: 宿苞石仙桃
• 中文（繁體）: 宿苞石仙桃
• 中文（香港）: 宿苞石仙桃

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Arethuseae • Subtribus: Coelogyninae • Genus: Pholidota (Orchidaceae) • Species: Pholidota imbricata Lindl. (1825)

Synonyms

Homotypic synonyms Cymbidium imbricatum (Lindl.) Roxb., Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 460 (1832) Coelogyne imbricata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 238 (1862) Heterotypic synonyms Ptilocnema bracteata D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal.: 33 (1825) Ornithidium imbricatum Wall. ex Lindl., Bot. Reg. 14: 1213 (1829) Pholidota conchoidea Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26(Misc.): 84 (1840) Pholidota calceata Rchb.f., Bonplandia (Hannover) 4: 329 (1856) Pholidota crotalina Rchb.f., Allg. Gartenzeitung 24: 218 (1856) Pholidota loricata Rchb.f., Bonplandia (Hannover) 5: 43 (1857) Pholidota triotos Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 238 (1861) Coelogyne conchoidea (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 237 (1862) Coelogyne crotalina (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 238 (1862) Coelogyne loricata (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 238 (1862) Coelogyne triotos (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f., Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 18: 34 (1862) Pholidota assamica Regel, Gartenflora 39: 607 (1890) Pholidota imbricata var. coriacea Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 846 (1890) Pholidota imbricata var. longifolia Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 109 (1911) Pholidota imbricata var. montana Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 109 (1911) Pholidota imbricata var. platyphylla Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 109 (1911) Pholidota henryi Kraenzl., Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 60: 427 (1915) Pholidota beccarii Schltr., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 8: 17 (1921) Pholidota grandis Kraenzl., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 76: 301 (1929) Pholidota spectabilis Kraenzl. ex Guillaumin, Ann. Mus. Colon. Marseille, sér. 6, 5-6: 15 (1948) Pholidota imbricata var. henryi (Kraenzl.) Tang & F.T.Wang Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 79 (1951) Pholidota bracteata (D.Don) Seidenf., Opera Bot. 89: 100 (1986)

Type species

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Flowers

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Botanical illustrations

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  Pholidota imbricata
  plate 1213 in:
  The Botanical Register
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 14,
  (1828)
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  plate 1777 in:
  Edwards's Bot. Register
  (Orchidaceae),
  vol. 21,
  (1836)
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  Pholidota imbricata
  figure 112 in:
  Johannes Jacobus Smith:
  Die Orchideen von Java
  Figuren-Atlas - 2. Heft
  Leiden (1909)

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Asia-Temperate China China South-Central, Tibet. Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya. Indo-China Andaman Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam. Malesia Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera. Papuasia New Guinea, Solomon Islands. Australasia Australia Queensland. Pacific Southwestern Pacific Fiji (doubtful), New Caledonia, Santa Cruz Islands, Vanuatu.

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Pholidota imbricata.

• Kew Gardens 'World Checklist' link : Pholidota imbricata