Aptosimum

Accepted species 23 Documented here 10 Family Scrophulariaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Aptosimum indivisum Burch. ex Benth. 216 documented
Aptosimum procumbens (Lehm.) Burch. ex Steud. 124 documented
Aptosimum spinescens (Thunb.) Emil Weber 70 documented
Aptosimum lineare Marloth & Engl. 37 documented
Aptosimum elongatum (Hiern) Engl. 19 documented
Aptosimum viscosum Benth. 17 documented
Aptosimum decumbens Schinz 13 documented
Aptosimum arenarium Engl. 8 documented
Aptosimum albomarginatum Marloth & Engl. 7 documented
Aptosimum marlothii (Engl.) Hiern 3 documented
Aptosimum patulum Bremek. 2 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum tragacanthoides E.Mey. ex Benth. 1 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum eriocephalum E.Mey. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum glandulosum Emil Weber & Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum gossweileri Skan 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum molle Skan 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum neglectum Emil Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum pumilum (Hochst.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum radiatum Kolberg & van Slageren 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum suberosum Emil Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum transvaalense Emil Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum transvaalensis Weber 0 below the evidence gate
Aptosimum welwitschii Hiern 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.