Orthosia

Accepted species 56 Documented here 7 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 56 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
Orthosia scoparia (Nutt.) Liede & Meve 93 documented
Orthosia virgata (Poir.) E.Fourn. 24 documented
Orthosia angustifolia (Turcz.) Liede & Meve 10 documented
Orthosia retinaculata (Schltr.) Liede & Meve 7 documented
Orthosia stenophylla Schltr. 6 documented
Orthosia urceolata E.Fourn. 4 documented
Orthosia mexicana (S.Watson) Liede & Meve 3 documented
Orthosia boliviana Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia bonplandiana (Schult.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia calycina (Schltr.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia cardozoi (Morillo) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia cassythoides (Suess.) Morillo 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia congesta (Vell.) Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia conradii Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia cynanchoides W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia dusenii (Malme) Fontella 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia eichleri E.Fourn. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia ellemanniae (Morillo) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia extra-axillaris W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia florida (Vell.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia glaberrima (Woodson) W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia goyderiana Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia guilleminiana (Decne.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia henriqueana (Silveira) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia itatiaiensis Malme 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia jaliscoensis Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia leivae Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia leptocarpa (Rusby) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia loandensis Fontella & Valente 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia meridensis (Morillo) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia micrantha Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia misera (L.O.Williams) W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia mollis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia myriantha (Schltr.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia nicaraguensis Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia nubicola (Morillo) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia pallida (Rusby) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia paranaensis Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia parviflora (E.Fourn.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia pearcei (Rusby) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia peruviana (Schltr.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia pietrangelii (Morillo) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia pubescens (Greenm.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia ramosa W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia rariflora (Schltr.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia rubens (L.O.Williams) W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia selloana (E.Fourn.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia sepium (Decne.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia smaragdina W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia stannardii (Morillo) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia stipitata W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia subulata (Vell.) Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia tarmensis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia teodormeyeri Liede & Meve 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia umbrosa Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Orthosia woodii Meve & Liede 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.