Oxystophyllum carnosumBlume

WFO wfo-0000261891 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. a Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-31 / obs. 102731294
Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. b Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 72428559
Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. c Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105664268
Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. d Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105664265
Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. e Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105664262
Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. f Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105664258
Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. g Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105664664
Oxystophyllum carnosum, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. h Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105664654

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K001627407
Filed as
Oxystophyllum carnosum Blume
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
Smith, J.J.
Origin
ID
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Oxystophyllum carnosum is native: Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam BorneoCambodiaJawaMalayaMyanmarSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Oxystophyllum carnosum, 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
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

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 58 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 21.9 °C 21.9 °C 21.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 31.2 °C 31.2 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 4,168 mm 4,182 mm 4,182 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 132 mm 133 mm 133 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 58 research-grade observations of Oxystophyllum carnosum 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 13 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.

  • Aporum carnosum (Blume) Rauschert
  • Aporum concinnum Lindl. ex Rchb.f.
  • Aporum rigidum (Blume) Brieger
  • Callista carnosa (Blume) Kuntze
  • Callista oxystophylla Kuntze
  • Callista rigescens (Miq.) Kuntze
  • Dendrobium carnosum (Blume) Rchb.f.
  • Dendrobium concinnum Miq.
  • Dendrobium rigens Rchb.f.
  • Dendrobium rigescens Miq.
  • Dendrobium rigidum (Blume) Lindl.
  • Dendrobium rigidum (Blume) Miq.
  • Oxystophyllum rigidum Blume

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.