Bletia

Accepted species 56 Documented here 21 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 56 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
Bletia spicata (Walter) Sosa & M.W.Chase 166 documented
Bletia purpurea (Lam.) A.DC. 136 documented
Bletia nitida (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.W.Chase 58 documented
Bletia parkinsonii Hook. 32 documented
Bletia mexicana (Greenm.) Sosa & M.W.Chase 29 documented
Bletia roezlii Rchb.f. 27 documented
Bletia arizonica (S.Watson) Sosa & M.W.Chase 25 documented
Bletia warnockii (Ames & Correll) Sosa & M.W.Chase 25 documented
Bletia gracilis G.Lodd. 14 documented
Bletia campanulata Lex. 12 documented
Bletia purpurata A.Rich. & Galeotti 10 documented
Bletia tenuifolia Ames & C.Schweinf. 9 documented
Bletia brevicaulis (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.W.Chase 7 documented
Bletia patula Hook. 6 documented
Bletia coccinea Lex. 5 documented
Bletia parva Sosa & M.W.Chase 5 documented
Bletia catenulata Ruiz & Pav. 4 documented
Bletia adenocarpa Rchb.f. 3 documented
Bletia ensifolia L.O.Williams 3 documented
Bletia greenwoodiana Sosa 3 documented
Bletia macristhmochila Greenm. 3 documented
Bletia reflexa Lindl. 6 below the evidence gate
Bletia amabilis C.Schweinf. 2 below the evidence gate
Bletia revoluta (Correll) Sosa & M.W.Chase 2 below the evidence gate
Bletia antillana M.A.Diaz & Sosa 1 below the evidence gate
Bletia × ekmanii Serguera & Sánchez Los. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia × similis Dressler 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia × tamayoana S.Rosillo ex Soltero 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia altilamellata Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia candida Kraenzl. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia carabiana L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia colemanii (Catling) Sosa & M.W.Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia concolor Dressler 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia corallicola (Small) Sosa & M.W.Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia elegans Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia fallax (M.I.Rodr. & R.González) Sosa & M.W.Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia florida (Salisb.) R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia greenmaniana L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia hamiltoniana (Ackerman & Whitten) Sosa & M.W.Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia hoffmannii (M.A.Díaz & Llamacho) Sosa & M.W.Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia lilacina A.Rich. & Galeotti 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia meridana (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia mixtecana Salazar & C.Chávez 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia neglecta Sosa 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia nelsonii Ames 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia netzeri Senghas 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia punctata Lex. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia riparia Sosa & Palestina 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia santosii H.Ávila, J.G.González & Art.Castro 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia sarcophylla Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia stenophylla Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia urbana Dressler 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia villae Soto Arenas 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia volubilis M.A.Díaz 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia warfordiana Sosa 0 below the evidence gate
Bletia wrightii Acuña 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.