Aerangis

Accepted species 63 Documented here 7 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 63 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Aerangis mystacidii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 13 documented
Aerangis citrata (Thouars) Schltr. 8 documented
Aerangis cryptodon (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 4 documented
Aerangis ellisii (B.S.Williams) Schltr. 3 documented
Aerangis fastuosa (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 3 documented
Aerangis pallidiflora H.Perrier 3 documented
Aerangis thomsonii (Rolfe) Schltr. 3 documented
Aerangis articulata (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 2 below the evidence gate
Aerangis hyaloides (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 2 below the evidence gate
Aerangis punctata J.Stewart 2 below the evidence gate
Aerangis verdickii (De Wild.) Schltr. 2 below the evidence gate
Aerangis decaryana H.Perrier 1 below the evidence gate
Aerangis × chirioana Bellone & Chiron 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis × isobyliae J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis alcicornis (Rchb.f.) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis appendiculata (De Wild.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis arachnopus (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis biloba (Lindl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis bouarensis Chiron 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis boutonii (Rchb.f.) P.J.Cribb & Carlsward 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis bovicornu Hermans 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis brachycarpa (A.Rich.) T.Durand & Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis calantha (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis carnea J.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis collum-cygni Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis concavipetala H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis confusa J.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis coriacea Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis coursiana (H.Perrier) P.J.Cribb & Carlsward 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis distincta J.Stewart & la Croix 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis divitiflora (Schltr.) P.J.Cribb & Carlsward 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis flexuosa (Ridl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis fuscata (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis gracillima (Kraenzl.) J.C.Arends & J.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis gravenreuthii (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis hariotiana (Kraenzl.) P.J.Cribb & Carlsward 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis hildebrandtii (Rchb.f.) P.J.Cribb & Carlsward 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis hologlottis (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis humblotii (Rchb.f.) P.J.Cribb & Carlsward 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis jacksonii J.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis kirkii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis kotschyana (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis lacroixiae J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis lacroixiae J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis luteoalba (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis macrocentra (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis maireae la Croix & J.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis megaphylla Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis modesta (Hook.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis monantha Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis montana J.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis mooreana (Rolfe ex Sander) P.J.Cribb & J.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis oligantha Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis primulina (Rolfe) H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis pulchella (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis rostellaris (Rchb.f.) H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis seegeri Senghas 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis somalensis (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis spiculata (Finet) Senghas 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis splendida J.Stewart & la Croix 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis stelligera Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis stylosa (Rolfe) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aerangis ugandensis Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.