Laelia

Accepted species 30 Documented here 8 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 30 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
Laelia anceps Lindl. 26 documented
Laelia rubescens Lindl. 18 documented
Laelia albida Bateman ex Lindl. 14 documented
Laelia autumnalis (Lex.) Lindl. 13 documented
Laelia speciosa (Kunth) Schltr. 13 documented
Laelia superbiens Lindl. 8 documented
Laelia furfuracea Lindl. 5 documented
Laelia lueddemannii (Prill.) L.O.Williams 3 documented
Laelia eyermaniana Rchb.f. 1 below the evidence gate
Laelia gloriosa (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams 1 below the evidence gate
Laelia marginata (Lindl.) L.O.Williams 1 below the evidence gate
Laelia × oaxacana Salazar & R.Jiménez 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia aurea A.V.Navarro 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia colombiana J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia crawshayana Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia elata (Schltr.) J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia gouldiana Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia halbingeriana Salazar & Soto Arenas 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia heidii (Carnevali) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia lueddemanii (Prill.) L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia lyonsii (Lindl.) L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia meavei Cetzal & Pérez-García 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia moyobambae (Schltr.) C.Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia perezgarciae (Archila & Szlach.) Cetzal & Carnevali 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia rosea (Linden ex Lindl.) C.Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia schultzei (Schltr.) J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia splendida (Schltr.) L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia tlaxiacoensis Solano & Cruz-García 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia undulata (Lindl.) L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Laelia weberbaueriana (Kraenzl.) C.Schweinf. 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.