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The genus Phalaenopsis is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Phalaenopsis

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Phalaenopsis amabilis (L.) Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis amboinensis J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × amphitrite O'Brien	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis aphrodite Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis appendiculata Carr	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis bastianii O.Gruss & Roellke	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis bellina (Rchb.f.) Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis braceana (Hook.f.) Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis buyssoniana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis celebensis H.R.Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis chibae T.Yukawa	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis cochlearis Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis corningiana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi (Breda) Blume & Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis deliciosa Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis doweryensis Garay & Christenson	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis equestris (Schauer) Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis fasciata Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis fimbriata J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis floresensis Fowlie	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis fuscata Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × gersenii (Teijsm. & Binn.) Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis gibbosa H.R.Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis gigantea J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica (Rchb.f.) H.R.Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis honghenensis F.Y.Liu	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis inscriptiosinensis Fowlie	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × intermedia Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis javanica J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis kunstleri Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × leucorrhoda Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis lindenii Loher	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis lobbii (Rchb.f.) H.R.Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis lowii Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis luteola Burb. ex Garay, Christenson & O.Gruss	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis maculata Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis malipoensis Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis mannii Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis mariae Burb.ex R.Warner & H.Williams	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis mastersii King & Pantl.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis micholitzii Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis mirabilis (Seidenf.) Schuit.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis modesta J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis mysorensis C.J.Saldanha	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis pallens (Lindl.) Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis parishii Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis philippinensis Golamco ex Fowlie & C.Z.Tang	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis pulcherrima (Lindl.) J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis pulchra (Rchb.f.) H.R.Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis regnieriana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis reichenbachiana Rchb.f. & Sander	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis robinsonii J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × rolfeana H.R.Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis sanderiana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis schilleriana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × singuliflora J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis speciosa Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis stobartiana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis stuartiana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis sumatrana Korth. & Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis taenialis (Lindl.) Christenson & Pradhan	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis tetraspis Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × valentinii Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis × veitchiana Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis venosa Shim & Fowlie	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis violacea H.Witte	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis viridis J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Phalaenopsis wilsonii Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 136 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Phalaenopsis. Of these 69 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 98 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Phalaenopsis. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 136 species names for the genus Phalaenopsis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	69	50.7%
◕	Synonym	62	45.6%
◕	Unplaced	3	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.5%

All names

The status of the 234 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Phalaenopsis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	75	32.1%
◕	Synonym	154	65.8%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.9%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 136 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Phalaenopsis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	69	58	0	0	127	93.4%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	2.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	3	2	6	4.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Phalaenopsis, are as follows: