Caiophora

Accepted species 41 Documented here 15 Family Loasaceae

Accepted species 41 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
Caiophora carduifolia C.Presl 68 documented
Caiophora coronata (Gillies ex Arn.) Hook. & Arn. 50 documented
Caiophora chuquitensis (Meyen) Urb. & Gilg 26 documented
Caiophora clavata Urb. & Gilg 22 documented
Caiophora dederichiorum Mark.Ackermann & Weigend 16 documented
Caiophora cirsiifolia C.Presl 15 documented
Caiophora lateritia Klotzsch 14 documented
Caiophora lateritia Benth. 14 documented
Caiophora canarinoides (Lenné & K.Koch) Urb. & Gilg 11 documented
Caiophora rosulata (Wedd.) Urb. & Gilg 10 documented
Caiophora pentlandii (Paxton) Paxton & Lindl. 7 documented
Caiophora pulchella Urb. & Gilg 7 documented
Caiophora andina Urb. & Gilg 3 documented
Caiophora cernua (Griseb.) Urb. & Gilg ex Kurtz 3 documented
Caiophora hibiscifolia (Griseb.) Urb. & Gilg 3 documented
Caiophora contorta (Desr.) C.Presl 3 below the evidence gate
Caiophora deserticola Weigend & Mark.Ackermann 1 below the evidence gate
Caiophora pedicularifolia Killip 1 below the evidence gate
Caiophora × herbertii (Herb.) Paxton & Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora aconquijae Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora arechavaletae Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora arechavaletae (Urb.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora boliviana Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora buraeavi Urb. & Gilg ex Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora buraeavii Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora chuquisacana Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora dumetorum Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora macrantha Killip 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora madrequisa Killip 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora mollis (Griseb.) Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora nivalis Lillo 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora peduncularis (C.Presl) Weigend & Mark.Ackermann 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora pterosperma (G.Don) Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora rusbyana Urb. & Gilg ex Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora scarlatina Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora sleumeri Slanis, M.C.Perea & A.Grau 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora spegazzinii Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora stenocarpa Urb. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora tenuis Killip 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora vallegrandensis Slanis & Bulacio 0 below the evidence gate
Caiophora vargasii Standl. & F.A.Barkley 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.