Gymnosiphon

Accepted species 41 Documented here 2 Family Burmanniaceae

Accepted species 41 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
Gymnosiphon suaveolens (H.Karst.) Urb. 18 documented
Gymnosiphon divaricatus (Benth.) Benth. & Hook.f. 7 documented
Gymnosiphon breviflorus Gleason 2 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon affinis J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon afro-orientalis Cheek 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon aphyllum Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon aphyllus Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon bekensis Letouzey 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon brachycephalus Snelders & Maas 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon capitatus (Benth.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon constrictus Maas & H.Maas 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon cymosus (Benth.) Benth. & Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon danguyanus H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon fimbriatus (Benth.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon guianensis Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon longistylus (Benth.) Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon marieae Cheek 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon mayottensis Cheek 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon minahassae Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon minutus Snelders & Maas 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon neglectus Jonker 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon niveus (Griseb.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon okamotoi Tuyama 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon oliganthum Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon oliganthus Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon panamensis Jonker 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon papuanum Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon papuanus Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon pauciflorum Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon pauciflorus Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon philippinensis Pelser, Salares & Barcelona 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon queenslandicus B.Gray & Y.W.Low 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon recurvatus Snelders & Maas 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon refractus (Miers) Benth. & Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon saccatus (Sandwith) V.Merckx & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon samoritoureanus Cheek 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon sphaerocarpus Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon syceorosensis Nickrent 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon tenellus (Benth.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon urbani (K.I.Goebel & Suess.) V.Merckx & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosiphon usambaricus Engl. 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.