Asterella

Accepted species 52 Documented here 10 Family Aytoniaceae

Accepted species 52 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
Asterella drummondii (Taylor) R.M.Schust. ex D.G.Long 128 documented
Asterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv. 29 documented
Asterella australis (Hook.f. & Taylor) Verd. 25 documented
Asterella bolanderi (Austin) Underw. 19 documented
Asterella tenera (Mitt.) R.M.Schust. 19 documented
Asterella marginata (Nees) S.W.Arnell 16 documented
Asterella lindenbergiana (Corda ex Nees) Lindb. ex Arnell 8 documented
Asterella echinella (Gottsche) Underw. 7 documented
Asterella wallichiana (Lehm. & Lindenb.) Grolle 7 documented
Asterella macropoda (Spruce) A.Evans 4 documented
Asterella saccata (Wahlenb.) A.Evans 2 below the evidence gate
Asterella africana (Mont.) Underw. ex A.Evans 1 below the evidence gate
Asterella abyssinica (Gottsche) Grolle 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella alpina (Steph.) D.G.Long 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella bachmannii (Steph.) S.W.Arnell 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella blumeana (Nees) Kachroo 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella caucasica (Steph.) H.Buch, A.Evans & Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella chilensis (Nees & Mont.) A.Evans 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella conocephala (Steph.) R.M.Schust. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella cruciata (Steph.) Horik. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella dioica (Steph.) H.A.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella dissoluta (Steph.) Grolle 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella dognyensis H.A.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella dominicensis S.W.Arnell 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella elegans (Spreng.) Trevis. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella heteroflora (Steph.) H.A.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella innovans (Austin) H.A.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella khasyana (Griff.) Grolle 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella lateralis M.Howe 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella leptophylla (Mont.) Grolle 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella limbata D.G.Long & Grolle 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella linearis (Steph.) M.Howe 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella longebarbata (Steph.) H.A.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella muelleri (Gottsche ex Steph.) R.M.Schust. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella multiflora (Steph.) Pandé, K.P.Srivast. & Sultan Khan 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella muscicola (Steph.) S.W.Arnell 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella mussuriensis (Kashyap) Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella pappii (Gola) Grolle 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella persica (Steph.) M.Howe 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella preussii (Schiffn. ex Steph.) M.Howe 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella pringlei Underw. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella rugosa A.Evans 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella setisquama (Steph.) R.M.Schust. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella shimizuana Inoue 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella syngenesica (Bory) Grolle 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella tasmanica (Steph.) R.M.Schust. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella tenerrima (Steph.) H.A.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella venosa (Lehm. & Lindenb.) A.Evans 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella versicolor A.Evans 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella vulcanica (Schiffn.) Kachroo & Bapna 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella whiteleggeana (Steph.) R.M.Schust. 0 below the evidence gate
Asterella wilmsii (Steph.) S.W.Arnell 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.