Holothrix

Accepted species 49 Documented here 18 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 49 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
Holothrix burmanniana (L.) Le Péchon & Bytebier 124 documented
Holothrix villosa Lindl. 115 documented
Holothrix parviflora (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 97 documented
Holothrix etheliae (Bolus) Le Péchon & Bytebier 84 documented
Holothrix cernua (Burm.f.) Schelpe 62 documented
Holothrix aspera (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 52 documented
Holothrix burchellii (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 51 documented
Holothrix mundii Sond. 50 documented
Holothrix secunda (Thunb.) Rchb.f. 41 documented
Holothrix incurva Lindl. 26 documented
Holothrix scopularia Rchb.f. 22 documented
Holothrix orthoceras (Harv.) Rchb.f. 21 documented
Holothrix pilosa (Burch. ex Lindl.) Rchb.f. 18 documented
Holothrix schlechteriana Kraenzl. ex Schltr. 16 documented
Holothrix brevipetala Immelman & Schelpe 14 documented
Holothrix randii Rendle 9 documented
Holothrix thodei Rolfe 8 documented
Holothrix grandiflora (Sond.) Rchb.f. 3 documented
Holothrix filicornis Immelman & Schelpe 2 below the evidence gate
Holothrix exilis Lindl. 1 below the evidence gate
Holothrix aphylla (Forssk.) Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix arachnoidea (A.Rich.) Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix brongniartiana Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix buchananii Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix condensata Sond. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix culveri Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix elgonensis Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix hydra P.J.Cribb 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix johnstonii Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix klimkoana Szlach. & Marg. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix longicornu G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix longiflora Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix macowaniana Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix majubensis C.Archer & R.H.Archer 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix micrantha Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix montigena Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix nyasae Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix papillosa Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix pentadactyla (Summerh.) Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix pleistodactyla Kraenzl. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix praecox Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix schimperi Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix socotrana Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix squamata Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix squammata (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix tridactylites Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix tridentata (Hook.f.) Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix triloba (Rolfe) Kraenzl. 0 below the evidence gate
Holothrix unifolia Rchb.f. 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.