Cleistes

Accepted species 60 Documented here 2 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 60 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
Cleistes grandiflora (Aubl.) Schltr. 5 documented
Cleistes rosea Lindl. 4 documented
Cleistes paranaensis (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1 below the evidence gate
Cleistes aboucharii Szlach., Kolan. & Baranow 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes acuminata Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes aphylla (Barb.Rodr.) Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes australis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes ayangannensis Szlach. & Baranow 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes batistana Pansarin & F.Barros 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes bella Rchb.f. & Warm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes buenaventurae Szlach. & Kolan. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes calantha (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes carautae Toscano & Léoni 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes catharinensis (Cogn.) Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes cipoana Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes costaricensis Christenson 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes cuatrecasasii Kolan. & Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes elegantula (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes elongata Pansarin & F.Barros 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes exilis Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes fragrans (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes gert-hatschbachiana Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes huberi Carnevali & I.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes humidicola (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes idroboi Szlach. & Baranow 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes ionoglossa Hoehne & Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes itatiaiae Pabst 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes latiplume Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes lehmannii Kraenzl. ex Szlach. & Kolan. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes libonii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes liliastrum Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes magnifica (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes mantiqueirae Rchb.f. & Warm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes miersii Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes montana Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes moritzii (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes munchiquensis Szlach. & Baranow 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes nana (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes pallida Funez & Pansarin 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes paludosa Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes parviflora Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes paulensis (Schltr.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes pusilla Pansarin 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes ramboi Pabst 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes risaraldensis Szlach. & Baranow 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes rodriguesii (Cogn.) Campacci 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes romeroana Szlach., Kolan. & Baranow 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes silveirana Hoehne & Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes speciosa Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes strangii Pabst 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes stricta (C.Schweinf.) Garay & Dunst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes tamboana Dodson & Carnevali 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes tenuis (Rchb.f. ex Griseb.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes triflora (C.Schweinf.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes uliginosa Pabst 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes unguiculata (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes unifoliata (C.Schweinf.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes uribei Szlach. & Baranow 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes vargasii (C.Schweinf.) Medley 0 below the evidence gate
Cleistes violascens Campacci 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.