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Calanthe columnaris (C.Z.Tang & S.J.Cheng) M.W.Chase, Christenh. & Schuit.

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +2

No habitat climate
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About the genus · Calanthe

Calanthe, commonly known as Christmas orchids, is a genus of about 220 species of orchids in the family Orchidaceae. They are evergreen or deciduous terrestrial plants with thick roots, small oval pseudobulbs, large corrugated leaves and upright, sometimes arching flowering stems. The sepals and petals are narrow and a similar size to each other and the labellum usually has spreading lobes.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Calanthe", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Laos, Vietnam · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“pseudobulbous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 705 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Calanthe 31 in the reference

Calanthe argenteostriata Calanthe argenteostriata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Marie-Lan NguyenCalanthe arisanensis Calanthe arisanensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, 林正文Calanthe aristulifera Calanthe aristulifera Sinan calanthe Photo: CC0, author not statedCalanthe calanthoides Calanthe calanthoides Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos FunesCalanthe cardioglossa Calanthe cardioglossa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Nguyen-Khanh-Trinh TramCalanthe davidii Calanthe davidii David's Calanthe Photo: CC0, author not statedCalanthe densiflora Calanthe densiflora Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCalanthe discolor Calanthe discolor Common calanthe Photo: CC BY, 大澤風季 ohsawa_FukiCalanthe × dominyi Calanthe × dominyi Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Pranav Chandra BoseCalanthe graciliflora Calanthe graciliflora Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, 王天明Calanthe hancockii Calanthe hancockii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiCalanthe humblotii Calanthe humblotii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, amantedarmanin all 32 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Paraphaius columnaris; Phaius columnaris; Phaius guizhouensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(C.Z.Tang & S.J.Cheng) M.W.Chase, Christenh. & Schuit.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Laos +1
Wild records
3 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-213 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its IPNI identifier 77214497-1 is Kew's for Calanthe columnaris (C.Z.Tang & S.J.Cheng) M.W.Chase, Christenh. & Schuit.
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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