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Paraphalaenopsis labukensis Shim, A.Lamb & C.L.Chan

Orchidaceae · Borneo

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Paraphalaenopsis labukensis, photograph Elena Gaillard from New York, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsParaphalaenopsis labukensis, photograph Elena Gaillard from New York, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsParaphalaenopsis labukensis, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsParaphalaenopsis labukensis, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsParaphalaenopsis labukensis, photograph Keiyona Alifa Zahra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

Summary

Paraphalaenopsis labukensis is an orchid (family Orchidaceae) commonly called the rat-tailed orchid and native to Borneo. It is most notable for its very long narrow leaves; in the wild they reach 1.2 m (4 ft) long, while in cultivation they may grow longer than 2 m (6.5 ft).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Paraphalaenopsis labukensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeBorneo · 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“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.

Photographs

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Photographs: Elena Gaillard from New York, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Keiyona Alifa Zahra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Paraphalaenopsis 2 in the reference

Paraphalaenopsis laycockii Paraphalaenopsis laycockii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, sunoochi from Sapporo, Hokkaido, JapanParaphalaenopsis serpentilingua Paraphalaenopsis serpentilingua Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Names & registers

Also known as Phalaenopsis labukensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Shim, A.Lamb & C.L.Chan
Native to
Borneo
Wild records
none in range

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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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
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.

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