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Pholidota kouytcheensis is an orchid species identified by Gagnep. in 1931. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pholidota yunnanensis.
ORIGIN: Found in Guangzi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, southern Yunnan provinces of China as well as north Vietnam in forests on trees or on shaded, humid rocks at elevations of 1100 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with ovoid to sub-cylindric pseudobulbs enveloped basally by leathery sheaths and carrying 2, apical, lanceolate, papery, plicate, subobtuse gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, arising with the new leaves but on the base of the last mature pseudobulb, 2.8 to 3.6 [7 to 9 cm] long, 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-rhombic, deciduous during flowering floral bracts that gradually fall off during flowering.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.12 to 0.16 inches [3 to 4 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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