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Pholidota imbricata
Synonym
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Coelogyne conchoidea
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Family
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Orchidaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam - Pannamaravazha
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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September-March
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Distribution
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Indo-Malaysia
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Distribution
in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests and
sacred groves
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Uses
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These
are eaten in rheumatic diseases,
and are also believed to be useful in flatulence and stomach disorders. The
extract mixed with mustard oil is applied to swelling joints and is also
considered useful in lumbago.
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Key
botanical characters:
Epiphytes with crowded pseudobulbs and tufted roots.
Pseudobulbs 4-6 cm long, oblong-conical, tetragonous, with large deciduous
sheathing scales. Leaves 1-2 from the apex of pseudobulb, 14-25 x 3.2-5.5 cm,
elliptic-oblanceolate, base attenuate, apex acute or obtuse, coriaceous,
strongly 3-nerved. Racemes drooping, axillary, 20-27 cm long. Flowers
pinkish-white, hidden by imbricating, bifarious foliaceous persistent bracts;
bracts to 6 x 5 mm, ovate-obtuse. Sepals subequal, to 7 x 5 mm, ovate, apex
obtuse or acute, 3-nerved. Petals to 6 x 2.5 mm, linear-oblong. Lip to 8 x 8
mm, deeply saccate, sac longitudinally 3-ridged within, 3-lobed, mid-lobe
bifid. Column orbicular-ovate, winged. Anthers 2-loculed, pollinia 4. Capsule
ellipsoid, pendulous.
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