Appendicula reflexaBlume

reflexed appendicula

WFO wfo-0000251966 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Appendicula reflexa, photographed by Ryan McMinds
fig. a Ryan McMinds, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-10-01 / obs. 11240294
Appendicula reflexa, photographed by Ryan McMinds
fig. b Ryan McMinds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11240295
Appendicula reflexa, photographed by Ryan McMinds
fig. c Ryan McMinds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11240296

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Appendicula reflexa is native: Taiwan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Caroline Is., Fiji, New Caledonia, Santa Cruz Is., Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamFijiNew Caledonia Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.TongaVanuatuWallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Appendicula reflexa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Fiji FIJ
New Caledonia NWC
Santa Cruz Is. SCZ
Tonga TON
Vanuatu VAN
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

Not drawn on the map: Santa Cruz Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 27 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Appendicula cleistogama Schltr.
  • Appendicula cordata Hook.f.
  • Appendicula cornuta var. formosana (Hayata) S.S.Ying
  • Appendicula dalatensis Guillaumin
  • Appendicula formosana Hayata
  • Appendicula formosana var. kotoensis (Hayata) T.P.Lin
  • Appendicula kotoensis Hayata
  • Appendicula micrantha Lindl.
  • Appendicula minutiflora Ames & C.Schweinf.
  • Appendicula reflexa f. cleistogama J.J.Sm.
  • Appendicula reflexa var. neopommeranica (Schltr.) Schltr.
  • Appendicula robusta Ridl.
  • Appendicula vanikorensis Ames
  • Appendicula vieillardii Rchb.f.
  • Appendicula viridiflora Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Appendicula wenzelii Ames
  • Dendrobium minutiflorum Kraenzl.
  • Podochilus formosanus (Hayata) S.S.Ying
  • Podochilus kotoensis (Hayata) S.S.Ying
  • Podochilus micranthus (Lindl.) Schltr.
  • Podochilus neopommeranicus Schltr.
  • Podochilus reflexus (Blume) Schltr.
  • Podochilus reflexus var. cycloglossus Schltr.
  • Podochilus taiwanianus S.S.Ying

and 3 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol APRE2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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