Balanophora

Accepted species 25 Documented here 5 Family Balanophoraceae

Accepted species 25 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
Balanophora fungosa J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. 91 documented
Balanophora laxiflora Hemsl. 42 documented
Balanophora harlandii Hook.f. 25 documented
Balanophora dioica R.Br. ex Royle 4 documented
Balanophora involucrata Hook.f. & Thomson 4 documented
Balanophora tobiracola Makino 2 below the evidence gate
Balanophora latisepala (Tiegh.) Lecomte 1 below the evidence gate
Balanophora abbreviata Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora aphylla Luu, H.Ð.Trần & H.C.Nguyen 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora appressa R.X.Yu & S.Y.Zhou 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora coralliformis Barcelona, Tandang & Pelser 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora cucphuongensis Bân 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora elongata Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora fargesii (Tiegh.) Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora flava (Hook.f.) Lidén 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora japonica Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora lowii Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora nipponica Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora papuana Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora parajaponica R.X.Yu, S.Y.Zhou & Y.Q.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora polyandra Griff. 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora reflexa Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora subcupularis P.C.Tam 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora wilderi Setch. 0 below the evidence gate
Balanophora yakushimensis Hatus. & Masam. 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.