Apios

Accepted species 10 Documented here 2 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 10 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
Apios americana Medik. 1,041 documented
Apios priceana B.L.Rob. 13 documented
Apios brevis K.W.Jiang & B.Pan bis 0 below the evidence gate
Apios calcicola Z.C.Lu & B.Pan bis 0 below the evidence gate
Apios carnea (Wall.) Benth. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Apios chendezhaoana (Y.K.Yang, L.H.Liu & J.K.Wu) B.Pan bis, X.L.Yu & F.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Apios chindiana K.W.Jiang, J.F.Wang, Z.H.Chen & B.Pan bis 0 below the evidence gate
Apios delavayi Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Apios fortunei Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Apios macrantha Oliv. 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.