Cajanus

Accepted species 34 Documented here 6 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 34 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
Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars 92 documented
Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth 81 documented
Cajanus lineatus (Wight & Arn.) Maesen 15 documented
Cajanus sericeus (Benth. ex Baker) Maesen 6 documented
Cajanus reticulatus (Aiton) F.Muell. 5 documented
Cajanus heynei (Wight & Arn.) Maesen 4 documented
Cajanus pubescens (Ewart & Morrison) Maesen 2 below the evidence gate
Cajanus acutifolius (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus albicans (Wight & Arn.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus aromaticus Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus cajanifolius (Haines) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus cinereus (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus confertiflorus F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus crassicaulis Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus crassus (Prain ex King) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus elongatus (Benth.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus geminatus Pedley ex Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus goensis Dalzell 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus grandiflorus (Benth. ex Baker) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus hirtopilosus Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus kerstingii Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus lanceolatus (W.Fitzg.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus lanuginosus Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus latisepalus (S.T.Reynolds & Pedley) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus mareebensis (S.T.Reynolds & Pedley) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus marmoratus (Banks ex Benth.) F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus mollis (Benth.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus niveus (Benth.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus platycarpus (Benth.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus rugosus (Wight & Arn.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus trinervius (DC.) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus villosus (Benth. ex Baker) Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus viscidus Maesen 0 below the evidence gate
Cajanus volubilis (Blanco) Blanco 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.