Cremastra appendiculata(D.Don) Makino

WFO wfo-0000926764 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-28 / obs. 198510136
Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129337543
Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by chiuluan
fig. c chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61885932
Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28356263
Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. e Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 70671615
Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by Kim, Hyun-tae
fig. f Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3777359
Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. g John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195588704
Cremastra appendiculata, photographed by Tzu-Neng Yuan
fig. h Tzu-Neng Yuan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188408814

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Cremastra appendiculata is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Sakhalin, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanSakhalinTaiwanTibetAssamEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnam Korea
Native distribution of Cremastra appendiculata, 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
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR
Sakhalin SAK
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Not drawn on the map: Kuril 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.

Flowering 62 in flower of 68 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Cremastra appendiculata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 62 of 68 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Aplectrum appendiculatum (Blume) F.Maek.
  • Cremastra appendiculata Schltr.
  • Cremastra appendiculata f. albiflora B.Kill & Y.N.Lee
  • Cremastra appendiculata f. purpurea Honda
  • Cremastra appendiculata f. viridiflora (Honda) Honda
  • Cremastra appendiculata var. sonamii Lucksom
  • Cremastra appendiculata var. triloba (Hayata) S.S.Ying
  • Cremastra appendiculata var. viridiflora (Honda) Aver.
  • Cremastra bifolia C.L.Tso
  • Cremastra lanceolata (Kraenzl. ex Diels) Schltr.
  • Cremastra mitrata A.Gray
  • Cremastra triloba Hayata
  • Cremastra variabilis (Blume) Nakai
  • Cremastra variabilis var. viridiflora Honda
  • Cremastra wallichiana Lindl.
  • Cymbidium appendiculatum D.Don
  • Hyacinthorchis variabilis Blume
  • Pogonia lanceolata Kraenzl. ex Diels

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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