Bassia

Accepted species 22 Documented here 7 Family Chenopodiaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Bassia scoparia (L.) A.J.Scott 585 documented
Bassia prostrata (L.) Beck 90 documented
Bassia hyssopifolia (Pall.) Kuntze 57 documented
Bassia laniflora (S.G.Gmel.) A.J.Scott 17 documented
Bassia arabica (Boiss.) Maire & Weiller 3 documented
Bassia eriophora (Schrad.) Asch. 3 documented
Bassia muricata (L.) Asch. 3 documented
Bassia tomentosa (Lowe) Maire & Weiller 1 below the evidence gate
Bassia aegyptiaca Turki, El Shayeb & F.Shehata 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia americana (S.Watson) A.J.Scott 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia angustifolia (Turcz.) Freitag & G.Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia dinteri (Botsch.) A.J.Scott 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia indica (Wight) A.J.Scott 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia lasiantha Freitag & G.Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia littorea (Makino) Freitag & G.Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia melanoptera (Bunge) A.J.Scott 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia odontoptera (Schrenk) Freitag & G. Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia pilosa (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Freitag & G.Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia salsoloides (Fenzl) A.J.Scott 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia stellaris (Moq.) Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia tianschanica (Pavlov) Freitag & G.Kadereit 0 below the evidence gate
Bassia villosissima (Bong. & C.A.Mey.) Freitag & G.Kadereit 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.