Govenia

Accepted species 29 Documented here 11 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 29 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
Govenia liliacea (Lex.) Lindl. 31 documented
Govenia alba A.Rich. & Galeotti 20 documented
Govenia superba (Lex.) Lindl. 19 documented
Govenia utriculata (Sw.) Lindl. 17 documented
Govenia dressleriana E.W.Greenw. 11 documented
Govenia matudae E.W.Greenw. & Soto Arenas 11 documented
Govenia capitata Lindl. 6 documented
Govenia lagenophora Lindl. 5 documented
Govenia greenwoodii Dressler & Soto Arenas 4 documented
Govenia tingens Poepp. & Endl. 4 documented
Govenia bella E.W.Greenw. 3 documented
Govenia ciliilabia Ames & C.Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia elliptica S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia fasciata Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia floridana P.M.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia gardneri Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia jouyana R.González 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia latifolia (Kunth) Garay & G.A.Romero 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia plowmanii Szlach. & Kolan. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia polychroma Salazar, Fern.-Díaz & Huerta-Alvízar 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia praecox Salazar & E.W.Greenw. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia purpusii Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia quadriplicata Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia renilabia Szlach. & Kolan. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia rubellilabia García-Cruz 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia sodiroi Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia tequilana Dressler & Hágsater 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia viaria Dressler 0 below the evidence gate
Govenia vilcabambana Dodson 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.