Calanthe calanthoides(A.Rich. & Galeotti) Hamer & Garay

WFO wfo-0000762088 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Sobeida Morales
fig. a Sobeida Morales, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-26 / obs. 202558373
Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3844208
Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3821047
Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1297969
Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131375920
Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Paul Prior
fig. f Paul Prior, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48583207
Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. g Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192460654
Calanthe calanthoides, photographed by Esteban Pelaez
fig. h Esteban Pelaez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 48825637

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Calanthe calanthoides is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Panamá Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaPanamá
Native distribution of Calanthe calanthoides, 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
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Panamá PAN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 153 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.7 °C 7.2 °C 11.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.9 °C 18.8 °C 24.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,483 mm 4,110 mm 5,129 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 45 mm 332 mm 454 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 153 research-grade observations of Calanthe calanthoides 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 12 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.

  • Alismorchis granatensis Kuntze
  • Alismorchis mexicana Kuntze
  • Alismorkis cubensis (Linden & Rchb.f.) Kuntze
  • Alismorkis granatensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
  • Alismorkis mexicana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
  • Calanthe cubensis Linden & Rchb.f.
  • Calanthe granatensis Rchb.f.
  • Calanthe mexicana Rchb.f.
  • Calanthe mexicana var. lanceolata Correll
  • Calanthe mexicana var. retusa Correll
  • Ghiesbreghtia calanthoides A.Rich. & Galeotti
  • Ghiesbreghtia mexicana (Rchb.f.) Schltr.

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.