Plant Details

Accepted name:: Calanthe triplicata (Willemet) Ames [Orchidaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
christmas orchid	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jiǔ jié chóng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jiǔ zǐ lián huán cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
ròu lián huán	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sebueh	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sān léng xiā jǐ lán	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sān zhě xiā jǐ lán	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
yī chuàn niǔ zǐ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一串钮子	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
三棱虾脊兰	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
三褶虾脊兰	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
九子连环草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
九节虫	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
石上蕉	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
肉连环	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 47 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Calanthe veratrifolia R.Br. ex Ker Gawl. Bot. Reg. 9: t. 720 (1823), nom. superfl.
Orchis triplicata P.Willemet Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 18: 52 (1796).
Alismorkis angraeciflora (Rchb.f.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 650 (1891).
Alismorkis diploxiphion (Hook.f.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 650 (1891).
Alismorkis furcata (Bateman ex Lindl.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 650 (1891).
Alismorkis gracillima (Lindl.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 650 (1891).
Alismorkis veratrifolia Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 650 (1891), nom. superfl.
Amblyglottis veratrifolia Blume Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 370 (1825), nom. superfl.
Bletia quadrifida Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 5: 851 (1890), not validly publ.
Calanthe anchorifera Rchb.f. Gard. Chron., n.s., 19: 166 (1883).
Calanthe angraeciflora Rchb.f. Linnaea 41: 75 (1876).
Calanthe anthropophora Ridl. J. Fed. Malay States Mus. 5: 167 (1915).
Calanthe australasica D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. Austral. Orchid Res. 5: 8 (2006).
Calanthe bracteosa Rchb.f. Flora 65: 533 (1882).
Calanthe brevicolumna Hayata J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30(1): 328 (1911).
Calanthe breviflos Ridl. J. Bot. 63(Suppl.): 117 (1925).
Calanthe catilligera Rchb.f. Bonplandia (Hannover) 5: 37 (1857).
Calanthe colorans Rchb.f. Gard. Chron., n.s., 23: 360 (1885).
Calanthe diploxiphion Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 5: 849 (1890).
Calanthe furcata Bateman ex Lindl. Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 28 (1838).
Calanthe furcata f. albolineata K.Nakaj. J. Geobot. 17: 81 (1969).
Calanthe furcata f. albomarginata K.Nakaj. J. Geobot. 17: 55 (1969).
Calanthe furcata f. brevicolumna (Hayata) M.Hiroe Orchid Flowers 2: 87 (1971).
Calanthe gracillima Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 6: 8 (1855).
Calanthe matsumurana Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 2: 168 (1906).
Calanthe muelleri Kraenzl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 486 (1893).
Calanthe orthocentron Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 380 (1912).
Calanthe petri Rchb.f. Gard. Chron., n.s., 14: 326 (1880).
Calanthe proboscidea Rchb.f. Gard. Chron., n.s., 21: 476 (1884).
Calanthe pubescens Ridl. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1923: 117 (1923).
Calanthe rubicallosa Masam. J. Geobot. 23(2): t. 7 (1975).
Calanthe triantherifera Nadeaud Énum. Pl. Tahiti: 38 (1873).
Calanthe triplicata f. albolineata (K.Nakaj.) Hatus. Fl. Ryukyus: 862 (1971).
Calanthe triplicata f. albomarginata (K.Nakaj.) K.Nakaj. Biol. Mag. 10: 29 (1973).
Calanthe triplicata var. angraeciflora (Rchb.f.) N.Hallé Fl. Nouv.-Calédonie 8: 230 (1977).
Calanthe triplicata var. gracillima (Lindl.) N.Hallé Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 43: 41 (1998).
Calanthe triplicata var. minahassae Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21: 177 (1925).
Calanthe triplicata f. purpureoflora S.S.Ying Coloured Ill. Indig. Orchids Taiwan 2: 127 (1990), no type indicated.
Calanthe veratrifolia var. australis Lindl. & Paxton Paxton's Fl. Gard. 2: 132 (1851).
Calanthe veratrifolia var. cleistogama Schltr. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 380 (1912).
Calanthe veratrifolia var. dupliciloba J.J.Sm. Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 5: 69 (1922).
Calanthe veratrifolia var. kennyi F.M.Bailey Queensland Agric. J. 28: 276 (1912).
Calanthe veratrifolia var. lilacina Hassk. Flora 25(2, Beibl. 1): 7 (1842).
Calanthe veratrifolia var. stenochila Rchb.f. Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 13: 313 (1857).
Calanthe veratrifolia var. timorensis J.J.Sm. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 36: 110 (1934).
Limodorum ventricosum Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 481 (1821).
Limodorum veratrifolium Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 122 (1805), nom. superfl.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Calanthe triplicata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Calanthe triplicata (Willem.) Ames	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Calanthe triplicata (Willemet) Ames	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Calanthe triplicata (Willimet) Ames	Med. Orchids of Asia (Teoh, 2016)
Calanthe triplicta	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Calanthe veratrifolia	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Calanthe veratrifolia (Willd.) R.Br.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Calanthe veratrifolia Ker Gawl.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Calanthe veratrifolia R.Br.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Orchis triplicata Willem.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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