Porpax gigantea Deori
First published in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 17: 174 (1975 publ. 1978)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Assam to Thailand. It is a pseudobulbous epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Assam, Myanmar, Thailand
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Porpax fibuliformis var. gigantea (Deori) Debta & H.J.Chowdhery in J. Orchid Soc. India 24: 9 (2010)
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.
- Ormerod, P., Kurzweil, H. & Watthana, S. (2021). Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar. Phytotaxa 481: 1-262.
- Pedersen, H.Æ. & al. (2022). Flora of Thailand 12(3): 671-1015. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
- Sittisujjatham, S. (2006). Wild Orchid of Thailand 1: 1-495. Amarin.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Pedersen, H.Æ. & al. (2022). Flora of Thailand 12(3): 671-1015. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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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 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