Alnus

Accepted species 49 Documented here 20 Family Betulaceae

Accepted species 49 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
Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. 3,057 documented
Alnus incana (L.) Moench 1,581 documented
Alnus rubra Bong. 1,020 documented
Alnus alnobetula (Ehrh.) K.Koch 660 documented
Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd. 474 documented
Alnus rhombifolia Nutt. 403 documented
Alnus acuminata Kunth 136 documented
Alnus cordata (Loisel.) Duby 136 documented
Alnus lusitanica Vít, Douda & Mandák 92 documented
Alnus hirsuta (Spach) Rupr. 63 documented
Alnus formosana (Burkill) Makino 30 documented
Alnus nepalensis D.Don 28 documented
Alnus oblongifolia Torr. 26 documented
Alnus japonica (Thunb.) Steud. 12 documented
Alnus jorullensis Kunth 8 documented
Alnus maximowiczii Callier 8 documented
Alnus sieboldiana Matsum. 8 documented
Alnus orientalis Decne. 7 documented
Alnus subcordata C.A.Mey. 6 documented
Alnus maritima (Marshall) Muhl. ex Nutt. 4 documented
Alnus firma Siebold & Zucc. 1 below the evidence gate
Alnus × hanedae Suyinata 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus × hosoii Mizush. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus × mayrii Callier 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus × peculiaris Hiyama 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus × suginoi Sugim. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus betulifolia G.Y.Li, Z.H.Chen & D.D.Ma 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus cremastogyne Burkill 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus djavanshirii H.Zare 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus dolichocarpa H.Zare, Amini & Assadi 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus elliptica Req. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus fallacina Callier 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus fauriei H.Lév. & Vaniot 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus ferdinandi-coburgii C.K.Schneid. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus glutipes (Jarm. ex Czerpek) Vorosch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus hakkodensis Hayashi 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus henryi C.K.Schneid. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus lanata Duthie ex Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus mairei H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus mandshurica (Callier) Hand.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus matsumurae Callier 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus nitida (Spach) Endl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus paniculata Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus pendula Matsum. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus pubescens Tausch 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus rohlenae Vít, Douda & Mandák 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus serrulatoides Callier 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus trabeculosa Hand.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Alnus vermicularis Nakai 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.