Spiranthes

Accepted species 51 Documented here 30 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 51 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
Spiranthes vernalis Engelm. & A.Gray 790 documented
Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham. 502 documented
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak 470 documented
Spiranthes cernua (L.) Rich. 263 documented
Spiranthes praecox (Walter) S.Watson 263 documented
Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb. 235 documented
Spiranthes australis (R.Br.) Lindl. 233 documented
Spiranthes incurva (Jenn.) M.C.Pace 233 documented
Spiranthes spiralis (L.) Chevall. 224 documented
Spiranthes lacera (Raf.) Raf. 176 documented
Spiranthes tuberosa Raf. 148 documented
Spiranthes lucida (H.H.Eaton) Ames 118 documented
Spiranthes odorata (Nutt.) Lindl. 105 documented
Spiranthes ovalis Lindl. 102 documented
Spiranthes arcisepala M.C.Pace 99 documented
Spiranthes sinensis (Pers.) Ames 74 documented
Spiranthes sylvatica P.M.Br. 44 documented
Spiranthes longilabris Lindl. 40 documented
Spiranthes laciniata (Small) Ames 37 documented
Spiranthes porrifolia Lindl. 37 documented
Spiranthes aestivalis (Poir.) Rich. 35 documented
Spiranthes torta (Thunb.) Garay & H.R.Sweet 29 documented
Spiranthes perexilis (Sheviak) M.C.Pace 20 documented
Spiranthes diluvialis Sheviak 16 documented
Spiranthes bightensis M.C.Pace 14 documented
Spiranthes triloba (Small) K.Schum. 14 documented
Spiranthes niklasii M.C.Pace 9 documented
Spiranthes flexuosa (Sm.) Lindl. 8 documented
Spiranthes casei Catling & Cruise 4 documented
Spiranthes eatonii Ames ex P.M.Br. 3 documented
Spiranthes × eamesii P.M.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes × heteroaustralis J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes × intermedia Ames 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes × simpsonii Catling & Sheviak 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes brevilabris Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes delitescens Sheviak 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes graminea Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes hongkongensis S.Y.Hu & Barretto 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes igniorchis M.C.Pace 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes infernalis Sheviak 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes jouyana R.González & Lizb.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes kapnosperia M.C.Pace 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes maokensis M.C.Pace 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes nebulorum Catling & V.R.Catling 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes nivea T.P.Lin & W.M.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes pusilla (Blume) Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes sierrae M.C.Pace 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes stellata P.M.Br., Dueck & K.M.Cameron 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes suishanensis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes sunii Boufford & Wen H.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Spiranthes zahlbruckneri H.Fleischm. 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.