Bactris

Accepted species 82 Documented here 9 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 82 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
Bactris gasipaes Kunth 33 documented
Bactris major Jacq. 14 documented
Bactris maraja Mart. 10 documented
Bactris setosa Mart. 9 documented
Bactris cubensis Burret 5 documented
Bactris riparia Mart. 5 documented
Bactris militaris H.E.Moore 4 documented
Bactris guineensis (L.) H.E.Moore 3 documented
Bactris mexicana Mart. 3 documented
Bactris concinna Mart. 1 below the evidence gate
Bactris corossilla H.Karst. 1 below the evidence gate
Bactris syagroides Barb.Rodr. & Trail 1 below the evidence gate
Bactris syagroides Trail 1 below the evidence gate
Bactris × moorei Wess.Boer 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris acanthocarpa Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris acanthocarpoides Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris ana-juliae Cascante 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris aubletiana Trail 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris bahiensis Noblick ex A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris balanophora Spruce 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris barronis L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris bidentula Spruce 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris bifida Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris brongniartii Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris campestris Poepp. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris caryotifolia Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris caudata H.Wendl. ex Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris charnleyae de Nevers, A.J.Hend. & Grayum 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris chaveziae A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris chocoensis R.Bernal, Galeano, Copete & Cámara-Leret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris coloniata L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris coloradonis L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris constanciae Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris cuspidata Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris dianeura Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris elegans Trail 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris elegans Schaedtler 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris faucium Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris ferruginea Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris fissifrons Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris gastoniana Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris glandulosa Oerst. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris glassmanii Med.-Costa & Noblick ex A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris glaucescens Drude 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris gracilior Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris grayumii de Nevers & A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris halmoorei A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris hatschbachii Noblick ex A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris herrerana Cascante 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris hirta Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris horridispatha Noblick ex A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris jamaicana L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris killipii Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris kunorum de Nevers & Grayum 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris longiseta H.Wendl. ex Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris macroacantha Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris manriquei R.Bernal & Galeano 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris martiana A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris nancibaensis Granv. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris obovata H.Wendl. ex Schaedtler 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris oligocarpa Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris oligoclada Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris panamensis de Nevers & Grayum 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris pickelii Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris pilosa H.Karst. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris pliniana Granv. & A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris plumeriana Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris polystachya H.Wendl. ex Grayum 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris ptariana Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris rhaphidacantha Wess.Boer 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris rostrata Galeano & R.Bernal 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris schultesii (L.H.Bailey) Glassman 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris setiflora Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris setulosa H.Karst. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris simplicifrons Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris soeiroana Noblick ex A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris sphaerocarpa Trail 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris tefensis A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris timbuiensis H.Q.B.Fern. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris tomentosa Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris turbinocarpa Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Bactris vulgaris Barb.Rodr. 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.