Orchids of the coasts of India
65 orchids on the India list have a GBIF record placed in the coasts of India, 3 of them threatened (1 Endangered and 2 Vulnerable) and 20 endemic to India.
A species is in a region when a GBIF record of it is placed there (the biogeographic zones of the Wildlife Institute of India). Threatened: IUCN Red List Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. List of the week of 2026-11-09.
Threatened orchids of the coasts of India (3)
- Paphiopedilum insigne Splendid Paphiopedilum EN
- Benthamia africana VU
- Habenaria suaveolens VU
Orchids of the coasts of India endemic to India (20)
- Aerides crispa Curled Aerides
- Aerides maculosa fox brush orchid
- Bulbophyllum fuscopurpureum
- Dendrobium barbatulum Small Bearded Dendrobium
- Dendrobium ovatum Green Lipped Dendrobium
- Eulophia ochreata
- Eulophia pratensis Meadow Eulophia
- Habenaria brachyphylla Short-leaved habenaria
- Habenaria grandifloriformis Single Leaved Habenaria NT
- Habenaria laciniata
- Habenaria longicorniculata long-tailed habenaria
- Habenaria longicornu
- Habenaria perrottetiana
- Habenaria rariflora
- Habenaria suaveolens VU
- Peristylus caranjensis
- Pinalia polystachya
- Porpax filiformis
- Porpax reticosa
- Smithsonia viridiflora
All orchids of the coasts of India on the list (65)
- Acampe praemorsa Wight's Acampe
- Aerides crispa Curled Aerides
- Aerides maculosa fox brush orchid
- Anoectochilus roxburghii
- Arundina graminifolia Bamboo Orchid
- Benthamia africana VU
- Bulbophyllum fuscopurpureum
- Bulbophyllum moniliforme
- Bulbophyllum odoratissimum
- Bulbophyllum sterile Nilgiri Bulbophyllum
- Cleisostoma tenuifolium
- Cottonia peduncularis Long-ray Bee Orchid
- Cymbidium aloifolium Aloe-leaved Cymbidium
- Dendrobium aphyllum Hooded Orchid
- Dendrobium barbatulum Small Bearded Dendrobium
- Dendrobium crumenatum Dove flower
- Dendrobium macrostachyum Fringed tree orchid
- Dendrobium microbolbon
- Dendrobium ovatum Green Lipped Dendrobium
- Dendrolirium lasiopetalum
- Didymoplexis pallens Crystal bells
- Epidendrum radicans Fire-star orchid
- Epipactis helleborine Broad-leaved helleborine
- Eulophia epidendraea
- Eulophia herbacea
- Eulophia nuda
- Eulophia ochreata
- Eulophia pratensis Meadow Eulophia
- Habenaria brachyphylla Short-leaved habenaria
- Habenaria commelinifolia Commelina-Leaf Habenaria
- Habenaria crinifera Doll orchid
- Habenaria digitata
- Habenaria diphylla Two-leaved habenaria
- Habenaria furcifera
- Habenaria grandifloriformis Single Leaved Habenaria NT
- Habenaria laciniata
- Habenaria longicorniculata long-tailed habenaria
- Habenaria longicornu
- Habenaria marginata Golden yellow Habenaria
- Habenaria perrottetiana
- Habenaria rariflora
- Habenaria roxburghii Roxburgh's Habenaria
- Habenaria suaveolens VU
- Habenaria viridiflora
- Nervilia concolor tall shield orchid
- Nervilia infundibulifolia
- Oberonia brachystachys
- Oberonia mucronata
- Paphiopedilum insigne Splendid Paphiopedilum EN
- Peristylus caranjensis
- Peristylus cubitalis
- Peristylus plantagineus Plantain Peristylus
- Pinalia polystachya
- Platanthera longicalcarata
- Porpax filiformis
- Porpax reticosa
- Rhynchostylis retusa Foxtail Orchid
- Sirhookera lanceolata
- Smithsonia viridiflora
- Spathoglottis plicata Philippine Ground Orchid
- Spathoglottis unguiculata
- Vanda tessellata Checkered Vanda
- Vanda testacea
- Zeuxine longilabris Long-Lipped Zeuxine
- Zeuxine strateumatica centipede grass orchid
Orchids elsewhere
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Other species of the coasts of India
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