Cephalanthera

Accepted species 25 Documented here 9 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Cephalanthera longifolia (L.) Fritsch 788 documented
Cephalanthera damasonium (Mill.) Druce 662 documented
Cephalanthera rubra (L.) Rich. 536 documented
Cephalanthera austiniae (A.Gray) A.Heller 160 documented
Cephalanthera falcata (Thunb.) Blume 51 documented
Cephalanthera erecta (Thunb.) Blume 13 documented
Cephalanthera longibracteata Blume 7 documented
Cephalanthera kurdica Bornm. ex Kraenzl. 6 documented
Cephalanthera epipactoides Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 5 documented
Cephalanthera subaphylla Miyabe & Kudô 1 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera × renzii B.Baumann, H.Baumann, R.Lorenz & Ruedi Peter 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera × taubenheimii H.Baumann 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera calcarata S.C.Chen & K.Y.Lang 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera caucasica Kraenzl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera cucullata Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera ericiflora Szlach. & Mytnik 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera exigua Seidenf. 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera gracilis S.C.Chen & G.H.Zhu 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera humilis X.H.Jin 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera mayeri (E.Mayer & Zimmerm.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera nanchuanica (S.C.Chen) X.H.Jin & X.G.Xiang 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera otto-hechtii G.Keller 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera pusilla (Hook.f.) Seidenf. 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera schaberi H.Baumann 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalanthera schulzei E.G.Camus 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.