The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·576984GenusPlantae0 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. ›Orchids
  7. ›Lower Epidendroid Orchids
  8. ›Malaxideae
  9. ›Malaxidinae
No photograph on file

Orestias

Orestias is a genus of orchids. It has 4 known species, all native to central Africa, including the island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea.

Continue reading on Wikipedia

4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Orestias elegans

speciesOrestias elegans

Orestias foliosa

speciesOrestias foliosa

Orestias stelidostachya

speciesOrestias stelidostachya

Orestias micrantha

speciesOrestias micrantha

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Orestias in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 576984.