Platylepis

Accepted species 20 Documented here 1 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 20 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
Platylepis glandulosa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 5 documented
Platylepis bombus J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis commelynae (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis constricta (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis densiflora Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis flaccida (Schltr.) M.C.Pace 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis geluana (Schltr.) Schuit. & de Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis goudotii (Ormerod & Cavestro) M.C.Pace 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis grandiflora (Schltr.) Ormerod 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis heteromorpha Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis hosokawae (Fukuy.) J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis intricata Schuit. & de Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis laxa (Schltr.) J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis leucantha (Schltr.) J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis margaritifera Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis occulta (Thouars) Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis scripta (Rchb.f.) M.C.Pace 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis tidorensis J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis xerostele Ormerod 0 below the evidence gate
Platylepis zeuxinoides Schltr. 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.