Brachystele

Accepted species 24 Documented here 1 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Brachystele unilateralis (Poir.) Schltr. 10 documented
Brachystele camporum (Lindl.) Schltr. 2 below the evidence gate
Brachystele dilatata (Lindl.) Schltr. 2 below the evidence gate
Brachystele arechavaletae (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele bicrinita Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele bracteosa (Lindl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele burkartii M.N.Correa 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele casillasii R.González & Lizb.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele chlorops (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele cyclochila (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele delicatula (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele guayanensis (Lindl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele icmadophila Schltr. ex Pabst 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele luzmariana Szlach. & R.González 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele maasii Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele oxyanthos Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele pappulosa Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele rosilloana R.González & Lizb.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele scabrilingua Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele subfiliformis (Cogn.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele szlachetkoana R.González & Lizb.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele tamayoana Szlach., Rutk. & Mytnik 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele waldemarii Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystele widgrenii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 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.