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Phaius is a genus

Genus

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of large, mostly terrestrial orchids (family

Family (biology)

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Orchidaceae). The genus has about 20 species

Species

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. These species are found in tropical

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Asia

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, into China

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, Japan

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, Australia

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, and west to Africa

Africa

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and Madagascar

Madagascar

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. The genus is abbreviated Phaius in trade journals.

Synonymy

The following genera have been included into this genus:

Cyanorchis Thouars
Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars was an eminent French botanist.-Introduction:He was from an aristocrat family of the region of Anjou, where he grew up in the castle of Boumois, near Saumur...
Gastorchis Thouars
Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars was an eminent French botanist.-Introduction:He was from an aristocrat family of the region of Anjou, where he grew up in the castle of Boumois, near Saumur...
Gastrorchis Schltr.
Hecabe Raf.
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, was a nineteenth-century polymath who made notable contributions to botany, zoology, the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America and Mesoamerican ancient linguistics.Rafinesque was eccentric, and is often portrayed as an...
Pachyne Salisb.
Richard Anthony Salisbury
Richard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. While he is remembered as a valuable worker in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by his contemporaries.-Life:...
Pesomeria Lindl.
John Lindley
John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
Tankervillae Link
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist.Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link , who taught him the love for nature through collection of 'natural objects'...

List of species

Phaius australis
Phaius australis
Phaius australis, also known as the Lesser Swamp Orchid or Southern Swamp Orchid, is a species of orchid found in Australia. It is found from Lake Cathie, New South Wales to south east Queensland. This plant is listed as endangered. The habitat is swampy forest near sea level, often associated with...

F.Muell., (1858).
- Phaius australis var. australis F.Muell., (1858)
- Phaius australis var. bernaysii (F.Muell. ex Rchb.f.) Nicholls, 1951
Phaius baconii J.J.Wood & Shim in C.L.Chan. & al., (1994).
Phaius bernaysii F.Muell. ex Rchb.f., (1873) (synonym of the accepted name Phaius australis var. bernaysii (F.Muell. ex Rchb.f.) Nicholls, 1951 )
Phaius borneensis J.J.Sm., (1903).
Phaius callosus (Blume) Lindl., 8 (1831).
Phaius columnaris C.Z.Tang & S.J.Cheng, (1985).
Phaius corymbioides Schltr., (1911).
Phaius daenikeri Kraenzl., (1929).
Phaius delavayi (Finet) P.J.Cribb & Perner, (2002).
Phaius ecalcaratus J.J.Sm., (1911).
Phaius epiphyticus Seidenf., (1985).
Phaius flavus (Blume) Lindl., (1831).
Phaius fragilis L.O.Williams, (1938).
Phaius gratus Blume, (1856).
Phaius guizhouensis G.Z.Li, (1990).
Phaius hainanensis C.Z.Tang & S.J.Cheng, (1982).
Phaius indigoferus Hassk., (1842).
Phaius indochinensis Seidenf. & Ormerod, (1995).
Phaius klabatensis J.J.Sm., (1926).
Phaius labiatus J.J.Sm., (1920).
Phaius longibracteatus (S.Moore) Frapp. ex Cordem., (1895).
Phaius luridus Thwaites, (1861).
Phaius lyonii Ames, (1915).
Phaius mannii Rchb.f., (1881).
Phaius mindorensis Ames, Philipp. J. Sci., (1907).
Phaius mishmensis (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb.f., (1857).
Phaius montanus Schltr., (1912).
Phaius nanus Hook.f., (1890).
Phaius occidentalis Schltr. in O.Warburg (ed.), (1903).
Phaius pauciflorus (Blume) Blume, (1856).
- Phaius pauciflorus var. pallidus (Ridl.) Holttum, (1947).
- Phaius pauciflorus subsp. pauciflorus .
- Phaius pauciflorus var. punctatus (Lindl.) J.J.Sm., (1920).
- Phaius pauciflorus subsp. sabahensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al., (1993).
- Phaius pauciflorus var. sumatranus J.J.Sm., Bull. Jard. (1920).
Phaius philippinensis N.E.Br., (1889).
Phaius pictus
Phaius pictus
Phais pictus, or Forest Swamp Orchid, is a vulnerable rainforest terrestrial orchid of the genus Phaius. It is found from 0-600 metres in a relatively small restricted area in the McIlwraith Range, and from the Bloomfield River to the Kirrama Range, in Far North Queensland,...

T.E.Hunt, (1952).
Phaius pulchellus Kraenzl., (1882).
- Phaius pulchellus var. ambrensis Bosser, (1971).
- Phaius pulchellus var. andrambovatensis Bosser, (1971).
- Phaius pulchellus var. pulchellus .
- Phaius pulchellus var. sandrangatensis Bosser, (1971).
Phaius reflexipetalus J.J.Wood & Shim in C.L.Chan. & al., 1 (1994).
Phaius robertsii F.Muell., (1883).
Phaius sinensis Rolfe, (1913).
Phaius stenocentron Schltr., (1911).
Phaius subtrilobus Ames & C.Schweinf. in O.Ames, (1920).
Phaius tahitensis Schltr., 1 (1926).
Phaius takeoi (Hayata) H.J.Su, (1989).
Phaius tankervilleae (Banks ex L'Hér.) Blume, (1856).
Phaius tenuis Rchb.f., (1857).
Phaius terrestris (L.) Ormerod, 4 (1994).
Phaius tetragonus (Thouars) Rchb.f., (1855).
Phaius tonkinensis (Aver.) Aver. (2005)
Phaius trichoneurus Schltr., (1925).
Phaius villosus (Thouars) Blume, (1856).
Phaius wallichii Lindl. in N.Wallich, (1831).
Phaius wenshanensis F.Y.Liu, (1991).

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