Earina autumnalis(G.Forst.) Hook.f.

Easter Orchid

WFO wfo-0000947246 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Earina autumnalis, photographed by Lisa Bennett
fig. a Lisa Bennett, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-19 / obs. 200124979
Earina autumnalis, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. b Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186357670
Earina autumnalis, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. c Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 190612919
Earina autumnalis, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. d Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186212980
Earina autumnalis, photographed by John Barkla
fig. e John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182828729
Earina autumnalis, photographed by John Barkla
fig. f John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182049148
Earina autumnalis, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. g Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 190507619
Earina autumnalis, photographed by Cara-Lisa Schloots
fig. h Cara-Lisa Schloots, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182806732

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Flowering n = 1,300 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 1,300 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Cymbidium autumnale (G.Forst.) Sw.
  • Earina alba Colenso
  • Earina suaveolens Lindl.
  • Epidendrum autumnale G.Forst.
  • Malaxis autumnalis (G.Forst.) Spreng.

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.

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