Zeuxine flava(Wall. ex Lindl.) Trimen

WFO wfo-0000335291 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Zeuxine flava, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. a John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-11 / obs. 204616057
Zeuxine flava, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. b John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195588931
Zeuxine flava, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. c John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204616013
Zeuxine flava, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. d John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195588894
Zeuxine flava, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. e John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204616031
Zeuxine flava, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. f John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195588870
Zeuxine flava, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. g John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195588950

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Zeuxine flava is native: China South-Central, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralTaiwanAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Zeuxine flava, 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
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
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 7 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.

  • Haplochilus flavus (Wall. ex Lindl.) D.Dietr.
  • Hetaeria flava Lindl. ex Wall.
  • Hetaeria flava Lindl.
  • Monochilus flavus Wall. ex Lindl.
  • Zeuxine aurantiaca Schltr.
  • Zeuxine chenkangensis Ormerod
  • Zeuxine pingtungensis T.C.Hsu

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.