Boscia

Accepted species 30 Documented here 5 Family Capparaceae

Accepted species 30 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
Boscia albitrunca (Burch.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 290 documented
Boscia oleoides (Burch. ex DC.) Toelken 59 documented
Boscia foetida Schinz 9 documented
Boscia mossambicensis Klotzsch 6 documented
Boscia senegalensis Lam. 6 documented
Boscia coriacea Graells 1 below the evidence gate
Boscia arabica Pestal. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia cauliflora Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia fadeniorum Fici 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia gossweileri Exell 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia integrifolia J.St.-Hil. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia kalachariensis Pestal. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia keniensis Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia longifolia Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia madagascariensis (DC.) Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia matabelensis Pestal. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia mazzocchii (Chiov.) Fici & Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia microphylla Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia minimifolia Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia pestalozziana Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia plantefolii Hadj-Moust. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia polyantha Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia praecox Hauman 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia pruinosa Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia puberula Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia rotundifolia Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia salicifolia Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia tomentosa Toelken 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia urens Welw. ex Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Boscia welwitschii Gilg 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.