Tainia trinervis, commonly known as the ribbon orchid,[2] is an evergreen, terrestrial plant with crowded pseudobulbs, each with a single smooth, shiny leaf and up to fourteen greenish to yellowish flowers with red or purplish stripes in the middle.

It is found in tropical Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia.

Tainia trinervis is an evergreen, terrestrial herb that has thin, crowded, dark green pseudobulbs.

[2]<[3][4] The ribbon orchid was first formally described in 1856 by Carl Ludwig Blume who gave it the name Mitopetalum trinerve and published the description in Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum sive stirpium Exoticarum, Novarum vel Minus Cognitarum ex Vivis aut Siccis Brevis Expositio et Descriptio.

[8]: 555 Tainia trinervis grows in rainforest close to streams in tropical far north Queensland, New Guinea and the Maluku Islands.