Aciotis

Accepted species 17 Documented here 3 Family Melastomataceae

Accepted species 17 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
Aciotis purpurascens (Aubl.) Triana 7 documented
Aciotis indecora (Bonpl.) Triana 5 documented
Aciotis acuminifolia (Mart. ex DC.) Triana 3 documented
Aciotis rubricaulis (Mart. ex DC.) Triana 1 below the evidence gate
Aciotis annua (Mart. ex DC.) Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis brachybotria Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis circaeifolia (Bonpl.) Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis circaeoides (Mart. & Schrank ex DC.) Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis cordata J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis ferreirana Brade 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis olivieriana Freire-Fierro 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis ornata (Miq.) Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis paludosa (Mart. ex DC.) Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis pendulifolia (Bonpl.) Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis polystachya (Bonpl.) Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis viscida (Benth.) Freire-Fierro 0 below the evidence gate
Aciotis wurdackiana Freire-Fierro 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.