Bromheadia finlaysoniana(Lindl.) Miq.

WFO wfo-0000432056 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. a Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-05-06 / obs. 67211365
Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. b Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102145761
Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. c Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102145685
Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. d Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102145674
Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. e Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102145755
Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. f Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102145740
Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. g Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102145716
Bromheadia finlaysoniana, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. h Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69515069

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Bromheadia finlaysoniana is native: Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland BorneoCambodiaJawaLaosMalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnamQueensland
Native distribution of Bromheadia finlaysoniana, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 107 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.6 °C 22.8 °C 24.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.9 °C 29.8 °C 31.8 °C
Annual rainfall 2,047 mm 3,352 mm 4,835 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 41 mm 520 mm 840 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 107 research-grade observations of Bromheadia finlaysoniana that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 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.

  • Bromheadia finlaysoniana var. palustris (Lindl.) J.J.Sm.
  • Bromheadia finlaysoniana var. sylvestris (Ridl.) Holttum
  • Bromheadia palustris Lindl.
  • Bromheadia palustris var. papuana J.J.Sm.
  • Bromheadia pulchra Schltr.
  • Bromheadia sylvestris Ridl.
  • Bromheadia venusta T.E.Hunt
  • Coelogyne caulescens Griff.
  • Grammatophyllum finlaysonianum Lindl.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.