Gavilea

Accepted species 17 Documented here 10 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 17 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
Gavilea longibracteata (Lindl.) Sparre ex L.E.Navas 38 documented
Gavilea araucana (Phil.) M.N.Correa 37 documented
Gavilea lutea (Comm. ex Pers.) M.N.Correa 26 documented
Gavilea odoratissima Poepp. 13 documented
Gavilea glandulifera (Poepp. & Endl.) M.N.Correa 12 documented
Gavilea australis (Skottsb.) M.N.Correa 10 documented
Gavilea insularis M.N.Correa 5 documented
Gavilea platyantha (Rchb.f.) Ormerod 5 documented
Gavilea chica (Speg. & Kraenzl.) Chemisquy 3 documented
Gavilea supralabellata M.N.Correa 3 documented
Gavilea gladysiae Chemisquy 1 below the evidence gate
Gavilea cardioglossa (Reiche) Martic. 0 below the evidence gate
Gavilea kingii (Hook.f.) M.N.Correa 0 below the evidence gate
Gavilea littoralis (Phil.) M.N.Correa 0 below the evidence gate
Gavilea trullata Ormerod 0 below the evidence gate
Gavilea venosa (Lam.) Garay & Ormerod 0 below the evidence gate
Gavilea wittei (Hicken) Ormerod 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.