Brachystegia

Accepted species 32 Documented here 2 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 32 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
Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. 53 documented
Brachystegia tamarindoides Welw. ex Benth. 5 documented
Brachystegia × welwitschii Taub. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia allenii Hutch. & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia angustistipulata De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia astlei Hoyle 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia bakeriana Hutch. & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia bequaertii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia boehmii Taub. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia bournei Greenway 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia bussei Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia cynometroides Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia eurycoma Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia floribunda Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia glaberrima R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia gossweileri Hutch. & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia kennedyi Hoyle 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia laurentii (De Wild.) Louis ex J.Léonard 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia leonensis Hutch. & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia letestui De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia longifolia Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia lujae De Wild. ex Hutch. & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia manga De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia michelmorei Hoyle 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia mildbraedii Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia nigerica Hoyle & A.P.D.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia oblonga Sim 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia puberula Hutch. & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia russelliae I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia stipulata De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia taxifolia Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystegia utilis Hutch. & Burtt Davy 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.