Alternanthera

Accepted species 136 Documented here 20 Family Amaranthaceae

Accepted species 136 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
Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb. 1,103 documented
Alternanthera sessilis (L.) DC. 430 documented
Alternanthera pungens Kunth 273 documented
Alternanthera ficoidea (L.) P.Beauv. 215 documented
Alternanthera caracasana Kunth 104 documented
Alternanthera nahui Heenan & de Lange 82 documented
Alternanthera brasiliana (L.) Kuntze 67 documented
Alternanthera flavescens Kunth 52 documented
Alternanthera porrigens (Jacq.) Kuntze 37 documented
Alternanthera filifolia (Hook.f.) J.T.Howell 29 documented
Alternanthera paronychioides A.St.-Hil. 24 documented
Alternanthera echinocephala (Hook.f.) Christoph. 22 documented
Alternanthera halimifolia (Lam.) Standl. ex Pittier 17 documented
Alternanthera bettzickiana (Regel) G.Nicholson 14 documented
Alternanthera macbridei Standl. 8 documented
Alternanthera pycnantha (Benth.) Standl. 8 documented
Alternanthera albida (Moq.) Griseb. 6 documented
Alternanthera flavicoma (Andersson) J.T.Howell 3 documented
Alternanthera lanceolata (Benth.) Schinz 3 documented
Alternanthera pubiflora (Benth.) Kuntze 3 documented
Alternanthera littoralis Beauv. ex Moq. 2 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera acaulis Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera adscendens Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera albosquarrosa Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera albotomentosa Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera altacruzensis Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera aquatica (D.Parodi) Chodat 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera arequipensis Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera areschougii R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera aristata (Danguy & Cherm.) Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera asterotricha Uline 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera aurata (Mart.) Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera austrotrinitatis (Suess.) Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera bahiensis Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera boliviana Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera calcicola Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera cana Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera canescens Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera capituliflora (Bertero ex Colla) Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera cinerella Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera collina Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera congesta Suess. & O.Stützer ex O.Stützer 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera cordobensis (Standl.) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera coriacea Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera corymbiformis Eliasson 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera costaricensis Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera crassifolia (Standl.) Alain 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera crucis (Moq.) Bold. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera decurrens J.C.Siqueira 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera dendrotricha C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera dominii Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera dubia Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera elongata (Willd.) Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera fasciculata Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera fastigiata Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera flava (L.) Mears 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera flavida Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera flosculosa J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera frutescens R.Br. ex Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera galapagensis J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera geniculata Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera glaucescens (Hook.f.) J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera glaziovii R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera gomphrenoides Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera grandis Eliasson 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera helleri (B.L.Rob.) J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera herniarioides Beurl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera hirtula (Mart.) R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera inaccessa Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera ingramiana Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera jacquinii (Schrad.) Alain 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera januarensis J.C.Siqueira 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera junciflora I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera kurtzii Schinz ex Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera laguroides Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera laxa Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera linearis Bello 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera longipes Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera lupulina Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera malmeana R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera markgrafii Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera martii (Moq.) R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera mexicana Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera micrantha R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera microphylla R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera minutiflora (Seub.) Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera mollendoana Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera mollis (B.L.Rob.) Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera multicaulis (Mart.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera multiflora Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera muscoides Benth. & Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera nesiotes I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera nigriceps Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera nodifera (Moq.) Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera nudicaulis (Hook.f.) Christoph. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera obovata (M.Martens & Galeotti) Millsp. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera olivacea (Urb.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera panamensis Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera parviflora Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera pennelliana Miers ex Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera peruviana (Moq.) Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera philippo-coburgii (Zahlbr. ex Wawra) Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera piptantha Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera polycephala Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera praelonga A.St.-Hil. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera procumbens Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera puberula D.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera pulchella Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera pulverulenta Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera pumila O.Stützer 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera radicata Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera raimondii Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera ramosissima (Mart.) Chodat 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera regelii (Seub.) Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera reineckii Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera robinsonii Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera rufa (Mart.) D.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera rugulosa (B.L.Rob.) J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera scandens Hallier f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera scirpoides Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera sericea Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera serpens Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera serpyllifolia (Poir.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera snodgrassii (B.L.Rob.) J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera spinosa Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera stellata (S.Watson) Uline & W.L.Bray 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera stenophylla (Standl.) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera strictiuscula (Andersson) Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera subscaposa Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera suessenguthii Covas 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera tetramera R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera truxillensis Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera tubulosa Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera tucumana Lillo 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera vestita (Andersson) J.T.Howell 0 below the evidence gate
Alternanthera villosa Kunth 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.