Pholidota pallida Lindl.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 199

Pholidota pallida Lindl. , Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 21: t. 1777, 1836

Homotypic synonym: Coelogyne pallida (Lindl.) Rchb. f. in Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) 6: 238, 1861.

Heterotypic synonym: Pholidota calceata Rchb. f., Bonplandia 4: 329, 1856.

Specimens examined:— KACHIN. Putao District : 1220−1370 m, 12 Aug 1926, Kingdon-Ward 7283 ( K), det. E. F . de Vogel ; same loc., 1220 m, 31 May 1953, Kingdon-Ward 20946 ( BM), det. E. F . de Vogel; Myitkyina District : Nov 1922, Rock 7457 ( AMES) . CHIN. Mindat District : 2300−2500 m, 7 Dec 2002, Murata et al. 025642 ( MBK), det. T . Yukawa; same loc., 2325 m, 24 Jul 2008, Yasuda 060078 ( MBK); same loc., 1740 m, 5 Aug 2008, Fujikawa et al. 053134 ( MBK); same loc., 2030−2295 m, 27 Jun 2009, Tanaka & Yukawa 081276 ( MBK); same loc., 2400 m, 21 Aug 2013, Fujikawa et al. 094113 ( MBK) . MANDALAY. Kyaukse District: Wallich s.n. ( K). NAY PYI TAW . Unwin 13554 ( K), det. E. F . de Vogel. SHAN. Taunggyi District: May 1932, Dickason 5756 ( AMES); same loc., 1370 m, 28 Jun 1960, Egerod B-20 ( AMES, K). TENASSERIM. Parish 39 (not located), fide Parish (1883: 195) [as Coelogyne (Pholidota) imbricata ] .? MON. ‘ Amherst District’ : Jan 1912, Lace s.n. ( E), det. E. F . de Vogel. WITHOUT LOCALITY. Sep 1927, cult. Maymyo Bot. Gard. ex Swinhoe 131 ( K), det. E. F . de Vogel.

Distribution:— Northern India, the Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina and southwestern China.

Note:— According to de Vogel (1988: 67) there are three collections from Kachin and Shan states at KYO .