Achyranthes

Accepted species 20 Documented here 3 Family Amaranthaceae

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
Achyranthes aspera L. 495 documented
Achyranthes bidentata Blume 343 documented
Achyranthes splendens Mart. ex Moq. 6 documented
Achyranthes leptostachya E.Mey. ex Meisn. 2 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes arborescens R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes avicularis E.Mey. ex Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes diandra Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes fasciculata (Suess.) C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes filifolia Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes fruticulosa (C.B.Clarke) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes graminiformis Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes laniceps (C.B.Clarke) Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes mangarevica Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes marchionica F.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes margaretarum de Lange 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes mutica A.Gray ex H.Mann 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes schinzii (Standl.) Cufod. 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes shahii M.R.Almeida & S.M.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes talbotii Hutch. & Dalziel 0 below the evidence gate
Achyranthes viriditepala Di Vincenzo, Berends., Wondafr. & Borsch 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.