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Phreatia listeri, the Christmas Island caterpillar orchid, is a small epiphytic orchid with a fan of flat leaves and many tiny greenish white flowers on a thin stem. It is endemic to Christmas Island, where it grows on rainforest trees, so it needs humid, shaded conditions and is rarely grown outside its native habitat.
Phreatia listeri, commonly known as Christmas Island caterpillar orchid, is a plant in the orchid family and is an epiphyte with four to six flat, blunt leaves in a fan-like arrangement. A large number of tiny, greenish white flowers are arranged along a thin flowering stem. It is endemic to Christmas Island.
Found only on Christmas Island, the orchid is common on rainforest trees.
Plexaure crassiuscula · Norfolk Island caterpillar orchid · Native fan orchid · White lace orchid · Lace Orchids · Lace Orchids
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phreatia listeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
