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Habenaria medusa Kraenzl.

Orchidaceae · Borneo, Jawa +2

No habitat climate
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Summary

Habenaria medusa is a species of orchid endemic to Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Borneo.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Habenaria medusa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 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.
NativeBorneo, Jawa, Sulawesi, Sumatera · 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 marker-5.248, 119.857 · in the densest population, 4 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 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. 6 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.
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 6 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: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); Qniemiec, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; orchidgalore from New York, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Habenaria 10 in the reference

Habenaria ciliolaris Habenaria ciliolaris Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 許文俊Habenaria dentata Habenaria dentata Big white-egret flower Photo: CC0, author not statedHabenaria floribunda Habenaria floribunda Toothpetal bog orchid Photo: CC BY, Milo CatonHabenaria jaliscana Habenaria jaliscana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Ricardo Betancourt SánchezHabenaria nyikana Habenaria nyikana Greenpad Ghost Orchid Photo: CC BY-SA, alanbedfordshawHabenaria repens Habenaria repens Waterspider bog orchid Photo: CC BY, Brandon JohnsonHabenaria rhodocheila Habenaria rhodocheila Red-Lipped Habenaria Photo: CC0, author not statedHabenaria socotrana Habenaria socotrana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossHabenaria trichosantha Habenaria trichosantha Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Apichart SongsangchunHabenaria tridactylites Habenaria tridactylites The Three Fingered Habenaria Photo: CC BY, Ben Jobson

Names & registers

Also known as Fimbrorchis medusa; Pecteilis medusa. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Kraenzl.
Native to
Borneo, Jawa, Sulawesi +1
Wild records
6 in range · 6 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 answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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