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Pauper Orchids
Aphyllorchis
Aphyllorchis, commonly known as pauper orchids or as 無葉蘭屬/无叶兰属 (wu ye lan shu), is a genus of about twenty species of terrestrial leafless orchids in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus have fleshy, upright stems and small to medium-sized resupinate flowers with narrow sepals and petals. They are native to a region extending from India east to China and Japan, south to Indonesia, New Guinea and Queensland, Australia.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Aphyllorchis montana
speciesAphyllorchis montana
Aphyllorchis caudata
speciesAphyllorchis caudata
Aphyllorchis pallida
speciesAphyllorchis pallida
Aphyllorchis alpina
speciesAphyllorchis alpina
yellow pauper orchid
speciesAphyllorchis queenslandica
simple pauper orchid
speciesAphyllorchis anomala
Aphyllorchis simplex
speciesAphyllorchis simplex
Aphyllorchis periactinantha
speciesAphyllorchis periactinantha
Aphyllorchis maliauensis
speciesAphyllorchis maliauensis
Aphyllorchis acuminata
speciesAphyllorchis acuminata
Aphyllorchis angustipetala
speciesAphyllorchis angustipetala
Aphyllorchis evrardii
speciesAphyllorchis evrardii
Aphyllorchis halconensis
speciesAphyllorchis halconensis
Aphyllorchis kemulensis
speciesAphyllorchis kemulensis
Aphyllorchis siantanensis
speciesAphyllorchis siantanensis
Aphyllorchis spiculaea
speciesAphyllorchis spiculaea
Aphyllorchis striata
speciesAphyllorchis striata
Aphyllorchis sumatrana
speciesAphyllorchis sumatrana
Aphyllorchis exilis
speciesAphyllorchis exilis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 369720.