Cryptostylis

Accepted species 24 Documented here 8 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
Cryptostylis erecta R.Br. 333 documented
Cryptostylis subulata (Labill.) Rchb.f. 236 documented
Cryptostylis leptochila F.Muell. ex Benth. 100 documented
Cryptostylis ovata R.Br. 71 documented
Cryptostylis hunteriana Nicholls 9 documented
Cryptostylis taiwaniana Masam. 9 documented
Cryptostylis arachnites (Blume) Hassk. 4 documented
Cryptostylis arachnites (Blume) Blume 4 documented
Cryptostylis acutata J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis apiculata J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis arfakensis J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis carinata J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis clemensii (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis concava Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis conspicua J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis filiformis Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis gracilis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis hamadryas Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis javanica J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis lancilabris Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis ligulata J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis maculata (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis sigmoidea J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cryptostylis sororia 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.