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Pomatocalpa

Pomatocalpa
Photo: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid

About

Pomatocalpa, commonly known as bladder orchids, or 鹿角兰属 (lu jiao lan shu), is a genus of about twenty five species from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes or lithophytes with thick, leathery leaves and a large number of small flowers with a three-lobed labellum. There are about twenty five species found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the south-west Pacific.

Where it grows

Species in the genus Pomatocalpa are found from tropical and substropical Asia to the southwest Pacific.

Other Pomatocalpa plants

Blotched bladder orchid · Branched bladder orchid

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pomatocalpa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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