Calanthe brevicornu Lindl. (Himalaya to SE. Tibet: Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Calanthe davidii Franch. (Himalaya to S. Japan: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO) Calanthe × dominyi Lindl. (SE. China to Temp. E. Asia: China Southeast, Japan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan as per POWO) Calanthe herbacea Lindl. (Sikkim to China (S. Yunnan, S. Guangxi), N. Taiwan: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam as per POWO)
Calanthe keshabii Lucksom (E. Himalaya as per POWO) Calanthe mannii Hook.f. (Himalaya to S. China, Japan (Kagoshima): Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO) Calanthe masuca (D.Don) Lindl. (Madagascar, Tropical & Subtropical Asia: Assam, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam as per POWO) Calanthe obcordata (Lindl.) M.W.Chase, Christenh. & Schuit. (Assam to Japan (S. Kyushu) and C. & E. Malesia: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Laos, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO) Calanthe plantaginea Lindl. (Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and N. Myanmar: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO) Calanthe puberula Lindl. (Himalaya to Temp. E. Asia: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO) Calanthe sylvatica (Thouars) Lindl. (Tropical & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO) Calanthe tricarinata Lindl. (N. Pakistan to Temp. E. Asia: Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO) Calanthe triplicata (Willemet) Ames (Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Pacific: Andaman Is., Assam, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is. as per POWO) Calanthe whiteana King & Pantl. (Sikkim to China (N. & SW. Sichuan) and N. Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Vietnam as per POWO) . Calanthe R.Br., Bot. Reg. 7: t. 573 (1821), nom. cons.
Synonyms:
Alismorkis Thouars, Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 19: 318 (1809).
Alismorchis Thouars, Hist. Orchid.: t. 35 (1822), orth. var.
Centrosis Sw. ex Thouars, Hist. Orchid.: t. 35 (1822), nom. superfl.
Amblyglottis Blume, Bijdr.: 369 (1825).
Zoduba Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal.: 30 (1825).
Centrosia A.Rich., Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 4: 39 (1828).
Styloglossum Breda, Gen. Sp. Orchid. Asclep. 2: t. 7 (1829).
Zeduba Ham. ex Meisn., Pl. Vasc. Gen.: 280 (1842).
Ghiesbreghtia A.Rich. & Galeotti, Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., III, 3: 28 (1845).
Preptanthe Rchb.f., Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 8: 245 (1853).
Calanthidium Pfitzer in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl (eds.), Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2(6): 153 (1888).
Aulostylis Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 392 (1912).
Paracalanthe Kudô, J. Soc. Trop. Agric. 2: 235 (1930).
Distribution: Tropical & Subtropical Old World to Pacific, Mexico to Colombia, Caribbean . Calanthe (Orchidaceae) page with comparative images of species:
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