Attalea

Accepted species 41 Documented here 6 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 41 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
Attalea butyracea (Mutis ex L.f.) Wess.Boer 41 documented
Attalea phalerata Mart. ex Spreng. 33 documented
Attalea cohune Mart. 26 documented
Attalea exigua Drude 8 documented
Attalea colenda (O.F.Cook) Balslev & A.J.Hend. 4 documented
Attalea maripa (Aubl.) Mart. 3 documented
Attalea compta Mart. 1 below the evidence gate
Attalea pindobassu Bondar 1 below the evidence gate
Attalea × minarum (Balick, A.B.Anderson & Med.-Costa) Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea × piassabossu Bondar 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea × teixeirana (Bondar) Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea × voeksii Noblick ex Glassman 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea allenii H.E.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea amygdalina Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea attaleoides (Barb.Rodr.) Wess.Boer 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea barreirensis Glassman 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea camopiensis (Glassman) Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea cephalotus Poepp. ex Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea crassispatha (Mart.) Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea cuatrecasasiana (Dugand) A.J.Hend., Galeano & R.Bernal 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea dahlgreniana (Bondar) Wess.Boer 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea degranvillei (Glassman) Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea dubia (Mart.) Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea eichleri (Drude) A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea funifera Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea guianensis (Glassman) Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea humilis Mart. ex Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea iguadummat de Nevers 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea insignis (Mart.) Drude 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea luetzelburgii (Burret) Wess.Boer 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea microcarpa Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea nucifera H.Karst. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea oleifera Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea plowmanii (Glassman) Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea racemosa Spruce 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea sagotii (Trail ex Thurn) Wess.Boer 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea salvadorensis Glassman 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea septuagenata Dugand 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea speciosa Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea spectabilis Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Attalea tessmannii Burret 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.