Orbea

Accepted species 61 Documented here 7 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 61 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
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. 50 documented
Orbea melanantha (Schltr.) Bruyns 16 documented
Orbea carnosa (Stent) Bruyns 15 documented
Orbea tapscottii (I.Verd.) L.C.Leach 12 documented
Orbea lutea (N.E.Br.) Bruyns 8 documented
Orbea namaquensis (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach 8 documented
Orbea cooperi (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach 4 documented
Orbea rogersii (L.Bolus) Bruyns 3 below the evidence gate
Orbea pulchella (Masson) L.C.Leach 2 below the evidence gate
Orbea ubomboensis (I.Verd.) Bruyns 2 below the evidence gate
Orbea conjuncta (A.C.White & B.Sloane) Bruyns 1 below the evidence gate
Orbea decaisneana (Lem.) Bruyns 1 below the evidence gate
Orbea verrucosa (Masson) L.C.Leach 1 below the evidence gate
Orbea abayensis (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea albocastanea (Marloth) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea araysiana (Lavranos & Bilaidi) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea baldratii (A.C.White & B.Sloane) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea caudata (N.E.Br.) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea chrysostephana (Deflers) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea ciliata (Thunb.) L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea circes (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea cucullata (Plowes) Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea deflersiana (Lavranos) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea denboefii (Lavranos) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea distincta (E.A.Bruce) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea dummeri (N.E.Br.) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea fenestrata (Plowes) Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea gemugofana (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea gerstneri (Letty) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea gilbertii (Plowes) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea halipedicola L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea hardyi (R.A.Dyer) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea huernioides (P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea huillensis (Hiern) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea knobelii (E.Phillips) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea kulalensis (Plowes) J.M.H.Shaw & Idrees 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea laikipiensis (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea laticorona (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea longidens (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea lugardii (N.E.Br.) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea luntii (N.E.Br.) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea maculata (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea mcloughlinii (I.Verd.) L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea miscella (N.E.Br.) Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea nardii Raffaelli, Mosti & Tardelli 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea paradoxa (I.Verd.) L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea parviloba (Bruyns) Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea sacculata (N.E.Br.) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea schweinfurthii (A.Berger) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea semitubiflora (L.E.Newton) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea semota (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea sprengeri (Schweinf.) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea subterranea (E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea taitica Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea tubiformis (E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea umbracula (M.D.Hend.) L.C.Leach 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea valida (N.E.Br.) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea vibratilis (E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea wilsonii (P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea wissmannii (O.Schwartz) Bruyns 0 below the evidence gate
Orbea woodii (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach 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.