Vanilla

Accepted species 121 Documented here 9 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 121 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
Vanilla phaeantha Rchb.f. 10 documented
Vanilla palmarum (Salzm. ex Lindl.) Lindl. 9 documented
Vanilla inodora Schiede 7 documented
Vanilla chamissonis Klotzsch 6 documented
Vanilla planifolia Andrews 6 documented
Vanilla pompona Schiede 5 documented
Vanilla barbellata Rchb.f. 4 documented
Vanilla claviculata Sw. 4 documented
Vanilla coursii H.Perrier 3 documented
Vanilla griffithii Rchb.f. 2 below the evidence gate
Vanilla hartii Rolfe 2 below the evidence gate
Vanilla imperialis Kraenzl. 2 below the evidence gate
Vanilla trigonocarpa Hoehne 2 below the evidence gate
Vanilla poitaei Rchb.f. 1 below the evidence gate
Vanilla abundiflora J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla acuminata Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla acuta Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla africana Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla albida Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla andamanica Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla andina Damián & H.Garzón 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla angustipetala Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla annamica Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla aphylla Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla appendiculata Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla arcuata Pansarin & M.R.Miranda 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla armoriquensis Damián & Mitidieri 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla atropogon Schuit., Aver. & Rybková 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla barrereana Veyret & Szlach. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla bertoniensis Bertoni 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla bicolor Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla borneensis Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla bradei Schltr. ex Mansf. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla capixaba Fraga & D.R.Couto 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla cardinalis Aver. & Nuraliev 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla ceronii Dodson ex Szlach. & Kolan. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla chalotii Finet 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla cobanensis Archila 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla columbiana Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla corinnae Sambin & Chiron 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla costaricensis Soto Arenas 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla crenulata Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla cribbiana Soto Arenas 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla cruenta (Aver. & Vuong) Karremans, Damián & Léotard 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla cucullata Kraenzl. ex J.Braun & K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla decaryana H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla decesareae Ormerod & Cootes 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla diabolica P.O'Byrne 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla dietschiana Edwall 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla dilloniana Correll 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla dressleri Soto Arenas 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla dubia Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla dungsii Pabst 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla edwallii Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla espondae Soto Arenas 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla fimbriata Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla francoisii H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla giulianettii F.M.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla grandifolia Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla guianensis Splitg. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla hallei Szlach. & Olszewski 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla havilandii Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla helleri A.D.Hawkes 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla heterolopha Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla hostmannii Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla humblotii Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla insignis Ames 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla javieri Bar.-Colm. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla kaniensis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla karenchristianae Karremans & P.Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla kempteriana Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla kinabaluensis Carr 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla labellopapillata A.K.Koch, Fraga, J.U.Santos & Ilk.-Borg. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla madagascariensis Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla marmoreisensis Soto Calvo, Esperon & Sauleda 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla marowynensis Pulle 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla methonica Rchb.f. & Warsz. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla mexicana Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla montana Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla moonii Thwaites 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla nigerica Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla norashikiniana Go & Raffi 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla ochyrae Szlach. & Olszewski 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla odorata C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla organensis Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla oroana Dodson 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla ovalis Blanco 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla palembanica Teijsm. & Binn. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla parishii Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla parvifolia Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla paulista Fraga & Pansarin 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla penicillata Garay & Dunst. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla perrieri Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla phalaenopsis Rchb.f. ex Van Houtte 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla platyphylla Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla polylepis Summerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla raabii Ormerod & Cootes 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla ramificans J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla ramosa Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla ribeiroi Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla rivasii Molineros, R.T.González, Flanagan & J.T.Otero 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla roscheri Rchb.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla ruiziana Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla sanjappae Rasingam, R.P.Pandey, J.J.Wood & S.K.Srivast. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla sarapiquensis Soto Arenas 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla savannarum Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla seranica J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla seretii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla shenzhenica Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla siamensis Rolfe ex Downie 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla somai Hayata 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla sprucei Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla sumatrana J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla tiendatii Vuong, V.H.Bui, V.S.Dang & Aver. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla utteridgei J.J.Wood 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla vellozoi Rolfe 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla walkerae Wight 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla wariensis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla wightii Lindl. ex Wight 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla yersiniana Guillaumin & Sigaldi 0 below the evidence gate
Vanilla zanzibarica Rolfe 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.