Pterygodium

Accepted species 20 Documented here 16 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
Pterygodium catholicum (L.) Sw. 511 documented
Pterygodium acutifolium Lindl. 192 documented
Pterygodium alatum (Thunb.) Sw. 88 documented
Pterygodium volucris (L.f.) Sw. 59 documented
Pterygodium cleistogamum (Bolus) Schltr. 43 documented
Pterygodium platypetalum Lindl. 41 documented
Pterygodium hastatum Bolus 37 documented
Pterygodium cooperi Rolfe 36 documented
Pterygodium hallii (Schelpe) Kurzweil & H.P.Linder 24 documented
Pterygodium inversum (Thunb.) Sw. 24 documented
Pterygodium magnum Rchb.f. 24 documented
Pterygodium schelpei H.P.Linder 21 documented
Pterygodium afrum (L.) Sw. 20 documented
Pterygodium leucanthum Bolus 7 documented
Pterygodium vermiferum E.G.H.Oliv. & Liltved 7 documented
Pterygodium pentherianum Schltr. 3 documented
Pterygodium connivens Schelpe 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygodium cruciferum Sond. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygodium newdigatae Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygodium ukingense 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.