Brachystephanus

Accepted species 21 Documented here 1 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 21 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
Brachystephanus lyallii Nees 13 documented
Brachystephanus africanus S.Moore 2 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus calostachyus Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus coeruleus S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus congensis Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus densiflorus E.Figueiredo 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus giganteus Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus glaberrimus Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus holstii Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus jaundensis Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus kupeensis Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus laxispicatus I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus longiflorus Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus mannii C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus montifuga (Milne-Redh.) Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus myrmecophilus Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus occidentalis Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus oreacanthus Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus roseus Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus schliebenii (Mildbr.) Champl. 0 below the evidence gate
Brachystephanus sudanicus (Friis & Vollesen) Champl. 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.