Platystele

Accepted species 123 Documented here 7 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 123 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
Platystele microtatantha (Schltr.) Garay 17 documented
Platystele compacta (Ames) Ames 16 documented
Platystele stenostachya (Rchb.f.) Garay 9 documented
Platystele consobrina Luer 5 documented
Platystele pamelae Baquero & Zuchan 5 documented
Platystele misera (Lindl.) Garay 4 documented
Platystele posadarum Luer & R.Escobar 4 documented
Platystele aurea Garay 4 below the evidence gate
Platystele alucitae Luer 2 below the evidence gate
Platystele caudatisepala (C.Schweinf.) Garay 2 below the evidence gate
Platystele microglossa P.Ortiz 2 below the evidence gate
Platystele ovatilabia (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Garay 2 below the evidence gate
Platystele acicularis Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele aculeata Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele acutilingua Kapuler & Hascall 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele adelphe Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele aianthera I.Bock & Speckm. 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele altarica Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele apoloae Zambrano & Solano 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele argentosa Luer & R.Escobar 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele baqueroi L.Jost & Iturralde 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele beatricis P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele bernoullii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele bovilinguis Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele brenneri Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele calantha P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele calymma Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele carl-lueriana Karremans & Bogarín 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele catiensis Karremans & Bogarín 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele cedriensis Baquero & G.Verkovitch 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele cellulosa Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele cornejoi Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele crinita Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele crotaloglossa Archila & Chiron 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele dalstroemii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele dasyglossa P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele decouxii Baquero & G.Verkovitch 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele delhierroi Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele densiflora P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele dewildei Luer & R.Escobar 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele dodsonii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele doucetteana H.Medina, J.Portilla & I.Portilla 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele dressleri Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele edmundoi Pabst 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele enervis Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele escalerae Archila 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele examen-culicum Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele filamentosa Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele fimbriata Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele finleyae Monteros, E.Restrepo & Baquero 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele gaileana Luer & Endara 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele gerritseniana A.Doucette & J.Portilla 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele gyroglossa Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele hampshireae Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele hirtzii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele imperialis Archila, Chiron & Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele ingramii Luer & Dalström 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele jamboeensis Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele jane-lueriana Karremans & Bogarín 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele jesupiorum Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele johnstonii (Ames) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele jungermannioides (Schltr.) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele kayi (Thoerle & Cornejo) Bogarín & Karremans 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele lancilabris (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele lawessonii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele lehmannii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele londonoana Luer & R.Escobar 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele lycopodioides Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele medinae Thoerle 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele megaloglossa Luer & R.Escobar 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele microscopica Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele minimiflora (Schltr.) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele misasiana P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele muscicola Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele myoxura Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele napintzae Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele obtecta Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele orchestris P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele orectoglossa P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele ornata Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele ortiziana Luer & R.Escobar 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele ovalifolia (H.Focke) Garay & Dunst. 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele ovipositoglossa Archila & Chiron 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele oxyglossa (Schltr.) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele papillosa Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele paraensis Campacci & J.B.F.Silva 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele pedicellaris (Schltr.) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele perpusilla (Rchb.f.) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele peruviana Rizo-Patrón 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele pisifera (Lindl.) Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele portillae Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele propinqua (Ames) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele psix Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele pubescens Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele pyriformis Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele rauhii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele reflexa Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele repens (Ames) Garay 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele resimula Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele rhinocera Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele riograndensis Reina-Rodr. & Karremans 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele risaraldae Luer & R.Escobar 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele sancristobalensis Archila 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele schmidtchenii Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele schneideri P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele scopulifera Luer & Dodson 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele spatulata Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele speckmaieri Luer & Sijm 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele stellaris Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele stevensonii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele steyermarkii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele stonyx Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele sulcata Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele sylvestrei Karremans & Bogarín 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele tausensis Bogarín & Karremans 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele taylorii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele tica Karremans & Bogarín 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele tobarii Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele umbellata P.Ortiz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele vetulus Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele viridis Luer 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele ximenae Luer & Hirtz 0 below the evidence gate
Platystele zamorensis H.Medina, J.Portilla & I.Portilla 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.