Calanthe pulchra(Blume) Lindl.

WFO wfo-0000764776 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Calanthe pulchra, photographed by Scott Loarie
fig. a Scott Loarie, CC0 1.0 / 2017-10-17 / obs. 11241681
Calanthe pulchra, photographed by Tony Eales
fig. b Tony Eales, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 43969808
Calanthe pulchra, photographed by Scott Loarie
fig. c Scott Loarie, CC0 1.0 / obs. 11274151

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000342113
Filed as
Calanthe pulchra (Blume) Lindl.
Det. by
Cribb, P.
Collected
Yii, P.C. 1987-09-21
Origin
MY
The sheet
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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Calanthe pulchra is native: Borneo, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand BorneoJawaLaosMalayaPhilippinesSumateraThailand
Native distribution of Calanthe pulchra, 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
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA

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 8 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 pulchra Kuntze
  • Alismorkis curculigoides (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Alismorkis pulchra (Blume) Kuntze
  • Amblyglottis pulchra Blume
  • Calanthe curculigoides Lindl.
  • Calanthe shelfordi Ridl.
  • Styloglossum nervosa Breda
  • Styloglossum pulchrum (Blume) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb

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.

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