Taeniophyllum hasseltii, commonly known as the Christmas Island ribbonroot,[3] is a species of leafless epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that forms small clumps.

It has short stems and flattened silvery grey roots pressed against the substrate on which it is growing.

[3][4][5] Taeniophyllum hasseltii was first formally described in 1874 by Heinrich Reichenbach and the description was published in Xena Orchidacea.

[6] Reichenbach noted that he only knew this plant from illustrations from the estate of Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Conrad van Hasselt.

It was first recorded on Christmas Island in 1987 when specimens were seen on small branches fallen from a rainforest tree.