Liparis viridiflora(Blume) Lindl.

WFO wfo-0000228619 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Liparis viridiflora, photographed by S.MORE
fig. a S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / 2020-10-15 / obs. 104630897
Liparis viridiflora, photographed by Divya Mudappa
fig. b Divya Mudappa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 99606267
Liparis viridiflora, photographed by Divya Mudappa
fig. c Divya Mudappa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 99606274
Liparis viridiflora, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56841609
Liparis viridiflora, photographed by Divya Mudappa
fig. e Divya Mudappa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 53562917
Liparis viridiflora, photographed by Divya Mudappa
fig. f Divya Mudappa, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 53562845
Liparis viridiflora, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. g Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56841634
Liparis viridiflora, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56841606

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02650954
Filed as
Liparis viridiflora (Blume) Lindl.
Det. by
C. Schweinfurth 1940-06-01
Collected
F. Kingdon-Ward 1939-01-29
Origin
MM
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Liparis viridiflora is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Liparis viridiflora, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

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 28 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.

  • Cestichis kempteriana (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones
  • Cestichis longipes (Lindl.) Ames
  • Cestichis pendula Pfitzer
  • Leptorchis longipes (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Leptorchis stachyuras (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
  • Leptorchis triloba (Ridl.) Kuntze
  • Leptorchis viridiflora (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Leptorkis longipes (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Leptorkis stachyuras (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
  • Leptorkis triloba (Ridl.) Kuntze
  • Leptorkis viridiflora (Blume) Kuntze
  • Liparis boothii Regel
  • Liparis kempteriana Schltr.
  • Liparis longipes Lindl.
  • Liparis longipes var. spathulata (Lindl.) Ridl.
  • Liparis pendula Lindl.
  • Liparis piestopus Schltr.
  • Liparis pleistantha Schltr.
  • Liparis simondii Gagnep.
  • Liparis spathulata Lindl.
  • Liparis stachyurus Rchb.f.
  • Liparis triloba Ridl.
  • Liparis viridiflora var. spathulata (Lindl.) A.N.Rao
  • Malaxis viridiflora Blume

and 4 more.

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.