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Ver. 25.03
Mar. 6th, 2025

134.0000 Family Orchidaceae Juss.; Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 64 (1789), nom. cons.
over 800 genera, more than 30.000 spp. worldwide, mostly tropical
Species listed in database: 30538; hybrids: 1461
= Apostasiaceae Lindl.; Nix. Pl. 22 (1833), nom. cons.
= Cypripediaceae Lindl.; Nix. Pl. 22 (1833)
= Limodoraceae Horan.; Char. Ess. Fam. 44 (1847)
= Liparidaceae Vines; Stud. Text-book Bot. 2: 567 (1895)
= Neottiaceae Horan.; Prim. Lin. Syst. Nat. 50 (1834)
= Neuwiediaceae R.Dahlgren ex Reveal & Hoogland; Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia, Sér. 4, 13: 91 (1991)
= Ophrydaceae Vines; Stud. Text-book Bot. 2: 566 (1895)
= Pycnanthaceae Ravenna; Onira 12(6): 29 (2011)
= Vanillaceae Lindl.; Key Bot. 73 (1835)
134.5801 Genus Tropidia Lindl.; Numer. List [Wallich] no. 7386 (1832), et Bot. Reg. sub t. 1618 (1833)
Distribution: Tropical Asia from India into the Pacific, 1 tropical America widespread
Species listed in database: 32
= Chloidia Lindl.; Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 484 (1840)
= Cnemidia Lindl.; Edwards´s Bot. Reg. sub t. 1618 (1833)
= Decaisnea Lindl.; Numer. List [Wallich] no. 7388 (1832)
= Govindooia Wight; Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. [Wight] 6: 34, t. 2090 (1853)
= Kalimantanorchis Tsukaya, M.Nakaj. & H.Okada; Syst. Bot. 36(1): 52 (2011)
= Muluorchis J.J.Wood; Kew Bull. 39(1): 73 (1984)
= Ptychochilus Schauer; Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19, Suppl. 1: 431, t. 12. B (1843)
= Schoenomorphus Thorel ex Gagnep.; Bull. Soc. Bot. France 80: 351, 352 (1933)

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species :
Tropidia angulosa (Lindl.) Blume; Coll. Orchid. 122 (1859)
Distribution: China (Guangxi, S- & SW-Yunnan); SE-Tibet; Ryukyu Isl. (Okinawa, Iriomote); Taiwan; Bhutan; India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal); Bangladesh; Andaman / Nicobar Isl.; Myanmar (Sagaing, Taninthayi, Kachin); Thailand; Vietnam; peninsular Malaysia (once near Ipoh, Perak); Sumatra; Philippines; Java; Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali)
36 CHI TIB 38 NNS TAI 40 BAN BHU IND 41 MYA THA VIE 42 JAW LSI MLY PHI SUM
Synonyms: hidden
= Cnemidia angulosa Lindl.; Edwards´s Bot. Reg. sub t. 1618 (1833)
= Cnemidia nervosa (Wight) Bedd.; H. B. Grigg, Man. Nílagiri 122 (1880)
= Cnemidia semilibera Lindl.; Edwards´s Bot. Reg. sub t. 1618 (1833)
= Decaisnea angulosa Lindl. ex Wall.; Numer. List [Wallich] no. 7388 (1832), nomen
= Govindovia nervosa Wight; Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. [Wight] 6: 34. t. 2090 (1853)
= Tropidia barbeyana Schltr.; Bull. Herb. Boissier, Sér. 2, 6: 300 (1906)
= Tropidia bellii Blatt. & McCann; J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35: 730 (1932)
= Tropidia calcarata Ames; Philipp. J. Sci., C 7: 7 (1912)
= Tropidia govindovii Blume; Coll. Orchid. 122 (1859)
= Tropidia semilibera (Lindl.) Blume; Coll. Orchid. 122 (1859)
= Tropidia somae Hayata; Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6: 85 (1916) (as "somai")
species :
Tropidia bambusifolia (Thwaites) Trimen; Cat. Pl. Ceylon. 90 (1885)
Distribution: Sri Lanka; Andaman / Nicobar Isl.
40 SRL
Synonyms: hidden
= Cnemidia bambusifolia Thwaites; Enum. Pl. Zeyl. [Thwaites] 314 (1861)
= Tropidia thwaitesii Hook.f.; Fl. Brit. India [J.D.Hooker] 6: 93 (1890)
species :
Tropidia connata J.J.Wood & A.Lamb; Checklist Orchids Borneo 47 (1994)
Distribution: Borneo (Sabah)
42 BOR
species :
Tropidia corymbioides Schltr.; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 107 (1919)
Distribution: New Guinea (Papua New Guinea)
42 NWG
species :
Tropidia curculigoides Lindl.; Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 497 (1840)
Distribution: China (SW-Guangxi, Hainan, Hongkong, Yunnan); SE-Tibet; Taiwan; India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal); Bangladesh; Andaman Isl.; Myanmar (Mon, Kachin, Mandalay); Thailand; Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam; peninsular Malaysia; +Singapore; Sumatra; Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Sarawak); Brunei; Sulawesi; Java; Lesser Sunda Isl. (Timor); Australia (Northern Territory)
36 CHI TIB 38 TAI 40 BAN IND 41 AND CBD LAO MYA THA VIE 42 BOR BRN JAW LSI MLY SNG SUL SUM 50 AUS
Synonyms: hidden
= Schoenomorphus capitatus Thorel ex Gagnep.; Bull. Soc. Bot. France 80: 351 (1933)
= Tropidia assamica Blume; Coll. Orchid. 124 (1858)
= Tropidia capitata (Thorel ex Gagnep.) Ormerod; Checkl. Papuasian Orchids 437 (2017)
= Tropidia graminea Blume; Coll. Orchid. 124 (1858)
= Tropidia hongkongensis Rolfe; J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 36: 40 (1903)
= Tropidia squamata Blume; Coll. Orchid. 123 (1858)
species :
Tropidia disticha Schltr.; Nachtr. Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee [Schumann & Lauterbach] 94 (1905)
Distribution: New Guinea (Papua New Guinea, NE-Irian Jaya); Bismarck Arch. (New Ireland, Manus Isl.); Solomon Isl. (incl. New Georgia)
42 NWG 43 BIS SOL
species :
Tropidia effusa Rchb.f.; Fl. Vit. [Seemann] 295 (1868)
Distribution: Fiji; [Western] Samoa (Savai´i)
60 FIJ SAM
Synonyms: hidden
= Cnemidia ctenophora Rchb.f.; Otia Bot. Hamburg. 51 (1878)
= Tropidia ctenophora (Rchb.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Drake; Ill. Fl. Ins. Pacif. 311 (1892)
species :
Tropidia emeishanica K.Y.Lang; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 20(2): 184 (1982)
Distribution: China (SW-Sichuan)
36 CHI
species :
Tropidia formosana Rolfe ex Hemsl.; Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 9: 158 (1895)
Distribution: Taiwan
38 TAI
Synonyms: hidden
= Tropidia nanhuae W.M.Lin, Kuo Huang & T.P.Lin; Taiwania 51: 165 (2006)
species :
Tropidia gracilis Schltr.; Nachtr. Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee [Schumann & Lauterbach] 95 (1905)
Distribution: New Guinea (NE-Papua New Guinea)
42 NWG
species :
Tropidia hegderaoi S.Misra; Nelumbo 54: 13 (2012)
Distribution: India (Tamil Nadu)
40 IND
species :
Tropidia janowskyi J.J.Sm.; Meded. Rijks-Herb. 23: 2 (1915)
Distribution: New Guinea (NE-Irian Jaya)
42 NWG
species :
Tropidia kjellbergii Ormerod & Juswara; Harvard Pap. Bot. 25(2): 153, fig. 2 (2020)
Distribution: Sulawesi
42 SUL
species :
Tropidia maxwellii Ormerod; Checkl. Papuasian Orchids 438 (2017)
Distribution: SW-China; India (Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand); Bangladesh; Myanmar; Thailand; Cambodia
36 CHI 40 BAN IND 41 CBD MYA THA
Remarks: T. pedunculata p. p. for India and Indochina
species :
Tropidia mindorensis Ames; Philipp. J. Sci., C 2: 315 (1907)
Distribution: Philippines
42 PHI
species :
Tropidia multiflora J.J.Sm.; Blumea 5: 692 (1945)
Distribution: Lesser Sunda Isl. (Sumba)
42 LSI
species :
Tropidia multinervis Schltr.; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg., Beih. 1: 91 (1911)
Distribution: New Guinea (SE-Papua New Guinea, NE-Irian Jaya)
42 NWG
species :
Tropidia nagamasui (Tsukaya, M.Nakaj. & H.Okada) Ormerod & Juswara; Harvard Pap. Bot. 24(1): 30 (2019)
Distribution: Borneo (Kalimantan)
42 BOR
Synonyms: hidden
= Kalimantanorchis nagamasui Tsukaya, M.Nakaj. & H.Okada; Syst. Bot. 36(1): 52 (2011)
species :
Tropidia namasiae C.K.Liao, T.P.Lin & M.S.Tang; Novon 22(4): 426 (2013)
Distribution: Taiwan; India (Manipur)
38 TAI 40 IND
species :
Tropidia nipponica Masam.; Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 43: 249 (1929)
Distribution: Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yakushima Isl.); N-Ryukyu Isl. (Osumi Gunto, Tokara Gunto); Taiwan
38 JAP NNS TAI
Synonyms: hidden
= Tropidia angulosa var. nipponica (Masam.) S.S.Ying; Coloured Ill. Indig. Orchids Taiwan 2: 677 (1990)
= Tropidia angustifolia C.L.Yeh & C.S.Leou; Taiwania 54(2): 140 (2009)
= Tropidia nipponica var. hachijoensis F.Maek. & Yokota; Fl. Jap. [Iwatsuki et al., eds.] 4b: 243 (2016)
species :
Tropidia pedunculata Blume; Coll. Orchid. 122 (1859)
Distribution: Laos; peninsular Malaysia; Sumatra; Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Sarawak); Philippines (Mindanao); Java; Moluccas (Seram, ?Tanimbar); New Guinea (E-Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Fergusson Isl.)
41 LAO 42 BOR JAW MLY MOL NWG PHI SUM
Synonyms: hidden
= Tropidia acuminata Schltr.; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg., Beih. 1: 92 (1911)
= Tropidia maingayi Hook.f.; Fl. Brit. India [J.D.Hooker] 6: 93 (1890)
= Tropidia mindanaensis Ames; Leafl. Philipp. Bot. 5: 1553 (1912) [fide Ormerod 2017]
species :
Tropidia polystachya (Sw.) Ames; Orchidaceae [Ames] 2: 262 (1908)
Distribution: Japan [I]; USA (S-Florida); Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Veracruz); Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Cuba; Cayman Isl.; Jamaica; Hispaniola (Dominican Republic); Puerto Rico; Colombia (Magdalena); Venezuela (Aragua, Zulia); Ecuador; Galapagos
38 jap 78 USA 79 MEX 80 GUA HON NIC 81 CAY CUB HIS JAM PUE 82 CLM VEN 83 ECU GAL
Synonyms: hidden
= Chloidia polystachya (Sw.) Rchb.f.; Ann. Bot. Syst. [Walpers] 6: 644 (1863)
= Chloidia vernalis Lindl.; Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 484 (1840)
= Corymborkis polystachya (Sw.) Kuntze; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 658 (1891)
= Dendrorkis membranacea (A.Rich.) Kuntze; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 658 (1891)
= Macrostylis vernalis (Lindl.) Rchb.f.; Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 11 (1854)
= Neottia polystachya (Sw.) Sw.; Fl. Ind. Occid. 3: 1415 (1799)
= Polystachya membranacea A.Rich.; Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 248 (1850)
= Serapias polystachya Sw.; Prodr. [O.P.Swartz] 119 (1788)
= Stenorrhynchos polystachyon (Sw.) Spreng.; Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 3: 710 (1826)
= Tomotris polystachya (Sw.) Raf.; Fl. Tellur. 2: 89 (1837)
= Tropidia eatonii Ames; Contr. Ames Bot. Lab. 1: 14 (1904)
= Tropidia membranacea (A.Rich.) Szlach. & Kolan.; Mater. Orchid Fl. Colombia 1: 242 (2017)
species :
Tropidia ramosa J.J.Sm.; Bull. Dépt. Agric. Indes Néerl. 19: 38 (1908)
Distribution: New Guinea (E-Irian Jaya)
42 NWG
species :
Tropidia reichenbachiana Kraenzl.; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 442 (1886)
Distribution: Lesser Sunda Isl. (Flores, Sumba); Moluccas; New Guinea (Irian Jaya)
42 LSI MOL NWG
species :
Tropidia robinsonii Ames; Schedul. Orchid. No. 6, 16 (1923)
Distribution: Philippines (Luzon)
42 PHI
species :
Tropidia saprophytica J.J.Sm.; Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 7: 27 (1927)
Distribution: Borneo (Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Kalimantan, Sarawak)
42 BOR
Synonyms: hidden
= Muluorchis ramosa J.J.Wood; Kew Bull. 39: 74 (1984)
species :
Tropidia schlechteriana J.J.Sm.; Bull. Dépt. Agric. Indes Néerl. 15: 1 (1908)
Distribution: Philippines; Moluccas (Ternate, Halmaheira); New Guinea (Irian Jaya)
42 MOL NWG PHI
Synonyms: hidden
= Tropidia triloba J.J.Sm.; Bull. Dépt. Agric. Indes Néerl. 19: 38 (1908)
species :
Tropidia septemnervis (Schauer) Rchb.f.; Linnaea 25: 230 (1852)
Distribution: Philippines
42 PHI
Synonyms: hidden
= Ptychochilus septemnervis Schauer; Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19, Suppl. 1: 431, t. 12. B (1843)
= Tropidia minor Ames; Orchidaceae [Ames] 2: 65 (1908)
species :
Tropidia similis Schltr.; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg., Beih. 1: 93 (1911)
Distribution: New Guinea (NW-Papua New Guinea)
42 NWG
species :
Tropidia sui T.C.Hsu; Ill. Fl. Taiwan 2: 210 (2016)
Distribution: China (Hongkong); Taiwan
36 CHI 38 TAI
species :
Tropidia territorialis D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.; Orchadian 14 (8: Scientific Suppl.): xi (-xii) (2004)
Distribution: Australia (Northern Territory)
50 AUS
species :
Tropidia viridifusca Kraenzl.; Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 74: 71 (1929)
Distribution: Norfolk Isl.; New Caledonia (widespread but not frequent); Vanuatu
50 NFK 60 NWC VAN
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Covering 356,112 accepted species,
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