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This species is accepted, and its native range is New Guinea to Solomon Islands.
A specimen from Kew's Herbarium

Native to:

New Guinea, Solomon Is.

Agrostophyllum superpositum Schltr. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Apr 1, 2001 Utteridge, T.M.A. [214], Indonesia 71348.000
Mar 1, 1999 Hunt, P.F. [2985], Solomon Is. 28847.000
Morrison, A. [1489], Papua New Guinea 40633.000
Schlechter, F.R.R. [19534], New Guinea K000810660
Kloss, C.B. [6], New Guinea Agrostophyllum curvum K000810656

First published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 278 (1912)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Ormerod, P. (2017). Checklist of Papuasian Orchids: 1-494. Nature & Travel Books, Australia.

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0