Peristylus lacertifer(Lindl.) J.J.Sm.

WFO wfo-0000267456 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Peristylus lacertifer, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. a Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / 2021-09-18 / obs. 158300807
Peristylus lacertifer, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. b Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158300718
Peristylus lacertifer, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. c Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158300723
Peristylus lacertifer, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158300733
Peristylus lacertifer, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. e Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158300805
Peristylus lacertifer, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. f Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158300790
Peristylus lacertifer, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. g Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158300835

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04111228
Filed as
Peristylus lacertifer (Lindl.) J.J.Sm.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
C. E. O. Kuntze 1875-10-12
Origin
MY
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 17 botanical countries

Regions where Peristylus lacertifer is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Borneo, East Himalaya, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamBorneoEast HimalayaJawaMalayaMyanmarNepalPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnam Nansei-shoto
Native distribution of Peristylus lacertifer, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI

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 10 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.

  • Choeradoplectron spiranthes Schauer
  • Coeloglossum acuminatum Lindl.
  • Coeloglossum lacertiferum Lindl.
  • Gymnadenia tenuiflora Lindl.
  • Gymnadenia tenuiflora Lindl. ex Wall.
  • Habenaria lacertifera (Lindl.) Benth.
  • Habenaria meyenii Merr.
  • Peristylus chloranthus Lindl. ex Benth.
  • Peristylus hiugensis Ohwi
  • Peristylus spiranthes (Schauer) S.Y.Hu

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.