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This species is accepted, and its native range is Borneo.

Native to:

Borneo

Phalaenopsis modesta J.J.Sm. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Jul 5, 2002 Indonesia 40176.000
Lamb, A. 42937.000
Clements, M.A. [3372], Malaysia 53431.000
Lamb, A. [AL1162/89], Malaysia 55338.000
Lamb, A. [AL422/85], Sabah 72787.000

First published in Icon. Bogor.: t. 218 (1906)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • 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.

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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