Catopsis

Accepted species 23 Documented here 8 Family Bromeliaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Catopsis occulta Mart.-Correa, Espejo & López-Ferr. 19 documented
Catopsis berteroniana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Mez 17 documented
Catopsis nutans (Sw.) Griseb. 17 documented
Catopsis sessiliflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez 17 documented
Catopsis paniculata É.Morren 14 documented
Catopsis floribunda L.B.Sm. 8 documented
Catopsis oerstediana Mez 7 documented
Catopsis nitida (Hook.) Griseb. 3 documented
Catopsis morreniana Mez 2 below the evidence gate
Catopsis compacta Mez 1 below the evidence gate
Catopsis subulata L.B.Sm. 1 below the evidence gate
Catopsis wawranea Mez 1 below the evidence gate
Catopsis berteroana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis delicatula L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis juncifolia Mez & Wercklé 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis micrantha L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis minimiflora Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis montana L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis pedicellata L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis pisiformis Rauh 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis wangerinii Mez & Wercklé 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis wawreana Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Catopsis werckleana Mez 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.