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Crepidium purpureum; photograph (c) Yung-Lun Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Yung-Lun Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2024-08-22

Crepidium purpureum (Lindl.) Szlach.

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +13

No habitat climate
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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope. 43 of the 45 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; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Sulawesi · 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).
Map marker23.284, 120.53 · in the densest population, 18 records (40% of those in range)
Kew's description“pseudobulbous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 45 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1966 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 43 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 8050611 (Malaxis purpurea (Lindl.) Seidenf., 1970): Kew's file holds it as Malaxis purpurea (Lindl.) Kuntze (synonym under Crepidium purpureum (Lindl.) Szlach.); 11 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 45 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Emilie P, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Yung-Lun Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Crepidium 3 in the reference

Crepidium acuminatum Crepidium acuminatum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossCrepidium calophyllum Crepidium calophyllum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, John Baur Crepidium commelinifolium Orchidaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Crepidium bilobum; Crepidium hainanense; Crepidium rizalense; Malaxis acuminata f. biloba; Malaxis acuminata var. biloba and 11 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Lindl.) Szlach.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +12
Wild records
45 in range · 13 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 11 records of GBIF's key 8050611, Malaxis purpurea (Lindl.) Seidenf., 1970 (Kew's file holds it as Malaxis purpurea (Lindl.) Kuntze (synonym under Crepidium purpureum (Lindl.) Szlach.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km (1 at sea or ice); three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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