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Phalaenopsis wilsonii Rolfe

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +5 · listed by its genus as an orchid

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Phalaenopsis wilsonii, photograph Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhalaenopsis wilsonii, photograph Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhalaenopsis wilsonii, photograph Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhalaenopsis wilsonii, photograph Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhalaenopsis wilsonii, photograph Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhalaenopsis wilsonii, photograph Michael Wolf (Webseite), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Phalaenopsis wilsonii, also known as 华西蝴蝶兰 (hua xi hu die lan) in Chinese, is a species of epiphyte in the family Orchidaceae, native to China, Tibet, Myanmar and Vietnam. Additionally it has been recorded in India.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Phalaenopsis wilsonii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Phalaenopsis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte or lithophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Phalaenopsis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte or lithophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

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; three are needed for an envelope. 12 of the 14 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, Tibet, Assam, Myanmar, 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).
Map marker23.38, 104.255 · in the densest population, 4 records (29% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphyte or lithophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 14 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 11 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 12 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 of the 14 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: Naoki Takebayashi from Fairbanks, AK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5); Michael Wolf (Webseite), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Phalaenopsis 49 in the reference

Phalaenopsis amabilis Phalaenopsis amabilis Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPhalaenopsis amboinensis Phalaenopsis amboinensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPhalaenopsis aphrodite Phalaenopsis aphrodite Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Forest Botial-JarvisPhalaenopsis bastianii Phalaenopsis bastianii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Elena GaillardPhalaenopsis bellina Phalaenopsis bellina Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, User:BotBlnPhalaenopsis celebensis Phalaenopsis celebensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPhalaenopsis chibae Phalaenopsis chibae Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPhalaenopsis cochlearis Phalaenopsis cochlearis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPhalaenopsis corningiana Phalaenopsis corningiana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiPhalaenopsis cornu-cervi Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Rainer BreitlingPhalaenopsis deliciosa Phalaenopsis deliciosa Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPhalaenopsis difformis Phalaenopsis difformis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Wolfgang Apel all 50 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Doritis wilsonii; Kingidium wilsonii; Phalaenopsis chuxiongensis; Phalaenopsis minor; Phalaenopsis wilsonii f. azurea and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Rolfe
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +4
Wild records
14 in range · 11 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 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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