“…Among the Phytophthora species documented as pathogens on orchids, P. palmivora appeared to be the most widely distributed one throughout the globe. P. palmivora has been recorded on one or more orchid hosts in multiple countries, such as Australia ( Forsberg, 1985 ); Brazil (Santos dos Santos, 2012 ); Brunei Darussalam ( Peregrine and Ahmad, 1982 ); Florida, USA ( Alfieri et al, 1994 ; Simone and Burnett, 1995 ; Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996 ; Cating et al, 2008 ); French Polynesia ( Mu and Tsao, 1987 ; Tsao and Mu, 1987 ); Guam, a territory of USA ( Brown et al, 2007 ); Hawaii, USA ( Hine, 1962 ; Uchida and Aragaki, 1991 ; Uchida, 1994 ); India ( Erwin and Ribeiro, 1996 ); Java, Indonesia ( Schwarz, 1927 ; Purwantara et al, 2004 ); Japan ( Kiyomeda, 1992 ; Suzuki et al, 2008 ; Rahman et al, 2014 ); Korea Republic ( Hong et al, 1998 ); Malaysia ( Turner, 1966 ; Lim, 1980 ); Philippines ( Ros, 1985 ; Divinagracia and Ros, 1986 ); Poland ( Orlikowski and Szkuta, 2006 ; Orlikowski et al, 2008 ); Reunion ( Kopp, 1930 ); Sri Lanka ( Petch, 1921 ; Gadd, 1924 ; Zentmyer et al, 1973 ); Taiwan ( Chen and Hsieh, 1978 ; Wey, 1988 ; Ann, 1995 ; Yeh et al, 1998 ; Hsu et al, 2002 ); and Thailand ( Takahito et al, 1979 ; Sangchote et al, 2004 ; Khairum et al, 2016 ; Wongwan et al, 2021 ).…”