Orchis

Accepted species 61 Documented here 19 Family Orchidaceae

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
Orchis mascula (L.) L. 2,450 documented
Orchis militaris L. 1,206 documented
Orchis purpurea Huds. 871 documented
Orchis anthropophora (L.) All. 847 documented
Orchis simia Lam. 300 documented
Orchis italica Poir. 279 documented
Orchis pallens L. 266 documented
Orchis provincialis Balb. ex Lam. & DC. 129 documented
Orchis laeta Steinh. 114 documented
Orchis anatolica Boiss. 62 documented
Orchis punctulata Steven ex Lindl. 58 documented
Orchis pauciflora Ten. 49 documented
Orchis olbiensis Reut. ex Gren. 47 documented
Orchis quadripunctata Cirillo ex Ten. 39 documented
Orchis patens Desf. 30 documented
Orchis canariensis Lindl. 19 documented
Orchis brancifortii Biv. 11 documented
Orchis galilaea (Bornm. & M.Schulze) Schltr. 10 documented
Orchis sitiaca (Renz) P.Delforge 3 documented
Orchis spitzelii Saut. ex W.D.J.Koch 2 below the evidence gate
Orchis × algeriensis B.Baumann & H.Baumann 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × angusticruris Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × apollinaris W.Rossi, Ard., Cianchi & Bullini 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × aurunca W.Rossi & Minut. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × bergonii Nanteuil 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × beyrichii (Rchb.f.) A.Kern. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × bispurium (G.Keller) H.Kretzschmar, Eccarius & H.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × buelii Wildh. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × caesii De Angelis & Fumanti 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × calliantha Renz & Taubenheim 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × chabalensis B.Baumann, H.Baumann, R.Lorenz & Ruedi Peter 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × fitzii Hautz. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × klopfensteiniae P.Delforge 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × kretzschmariorum B.Baumann & H.Baumann 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × ligustica Ruppert 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × loreziana Brügger 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × lucensis Antonetti & Bertolini 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × macra Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × orphanidesii (E.G.Camus) B.Bock 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × palanchonii G.Foelsche & W.Foelsche 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × penzigiana A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × permixta Soó 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × petterssonii G.Keller ex Pett. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × schebestae Griebl 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × serraniana P.Delforge 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × thriftiensis Renz 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × tochniana Kreutz & Scraton 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × willingiorum B.Baumann & H.Baumann 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis × wulffiana Soó 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis adenocheila Czerniak. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis bivonae Tod. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis colemanii Cortesi 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis deutrodelamainii J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis ehdenica Kreutz 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis fallax (De Not.) Willk. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis hybrida (Lindl.) Boenn. ex Rchb. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis picta Raf. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis plessidiaca Renz 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis pseudoanatolica H.Fleischm. 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis sezikiana B.Baumann & H.Baumann 0 below the evidence gate
Orchis spuria 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.