Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume
First published in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 294 (1825)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Malesia to NE. Australia. It is an epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Cymbidium amabile (L.) Roxb. in Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 457 (1832)
- Epidendrum amabile L. in Sp. Pl.: 953 (1753)
- Synadena amabilis (L.) Raf. in Fl. Tellur. 4: 9 (1838)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Liu, Z.J., Wang, J.Y., Gruss, O. & Siren, L. (2021). The Genus Phalaenopsis in World: 1-493. Higher Education Press.
- Ormerod, P. (2017). Checklist of Papuasian Orchids: 1-494. Nature & Travel Books, Australia.
- Wood, J.J., Beaman, T.E., Lamb, A., Lun, C.C. & Beaman, J.H. (2011). The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu 2: 1-726. Natural history publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Kew Species Profiles
- Bechtel, H., Cribb, P. & Launert, E. (1992). The Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species. 3rd edition. Blandford Press, Poole.
- Briggs, J. D. & Leigh, J. H. (1996). Rare or Threatened Australian Plants. 4th edition. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.
- Brummitt, R. K. & Powell, C. E. (1996). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Christenson, E. A. (2001). Phalaenopsis: a Monograph. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
- Mabberley, D. J. (2008). Mabberley’s Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1998). Three-language List of Botanical Name Components. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010). Phalaenopsis amabilis. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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13741.000 | No | ||||
13742.000 | No | ||||
14240.000 | No | ||||
14241.000 | No | ||||
14243.000 | No | ||||
22249.000 | No | ||||
Forman, L.L. [338] | 29564.000 | No | |||
New Guinea | 32695.000 | No | |||
Giles, C. [796], Malaysia | 37367.000 | No | |||
Lamb, A. [K64] | 48475.000 | No | |||
Philippines | 51513.000 | No | |||
Lamb, A. [AL120/83], Sabah | 72711.000 | No | |||
Cuming [s.n.], Philippines | K000395467 | Unknown type material | Yes | ||
s.coll. [1148], Borneo | K000891358 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [s.n.] | K000891356 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [s.n.] | K000891357 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [s.n.] | K000891354 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [s.n.] | K000891353 | Yes | |||
Burbidge, F.W.T. [s.n.] | K000891352 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [s.n.] | K000891355 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Kew Species Profiles
- Kew Species Profiles
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0