Are approximately 60 species from tropical America, they are mainly epiphytic and occur naturally in a wide variety of habitats, or lithophytes witch grow on rocks. The flowers are borne on terminal racems.

Holcoglossum amesianum or litofita is an epiphytic species, endemic in Kampuchea, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China, which grows at 1200-2000 m altitude. Roots thick. Short stalk. Leaves 9-30 cm long, fleshy, narrow V-shaped in section, acute. Blossom raceme of 25-50 cm, with 15-30 flowers, SEPA and petals 2 cm, oblong, white.

Scientists have discovered that Holcoglossum amesianum self-fertilises.

It is not a hermaphrodite orchid needs water, wind or birds to inmultii.

Orchideele are monocotyledonous plants of the family Orchidaceae, including about 20,000 to 35,000 and 40,000 species of hybrids. Except for the polar areas, orchids grow in spontaneously in all climatic zones of the world, about 60 species are widespread in Europe and 140 in the U.S. and Canada.