Plagiostachys

Accepted species 30 Documented here 0 Family Zingiberaceae

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
Plagiostachys albiflora Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys altistachya Meekiong & C.K.Lim 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys austrosinensis T.L.Wu & S.J.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys bracteolata R.M.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys brevicalcarata Julius & A.Takano 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys breviramosa Cowley 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys corrugata Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys crocydocalyx (K.Schum.) B.L.Burtt & R.M.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys elegans Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys escritorii Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys glandulosa S.Sakai & Nagam. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys lasiophylla Gobilik & A.L.Lamb 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys lata Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys lateralis (Ridl.) Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys longicaudata Julius & A.Takano 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys megacarpa Julius & A.Takano 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys mucida Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys nicobarica M.Sabu, Sanoj & Prasanthk. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys oblanceolata Gobilik & A.L.Lamb 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys odorata C.K.Lim 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys parva Cowley 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys parviflora (C.Presl) Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys philippinensis Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys ridleyi Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys rolfei (K.Schum.) Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys roseiflora Julius & A.Takano 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys strobilifera (Baker) Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys sumatrensis Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys uviformis (L.) Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Plagiostachys viridisepala Julius & A.Takano 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.