Calobota

Accepted species 16 Documented here 7 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 16 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
Calobota cytisoides (P.J.Bergius) Eckl. & Zeyh. 34 documented
Calobota sericea (Thunb.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 31 documented
Calobota angustifolia (E.Mey.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 24 documented
Calobota halenbergensis (Merxm. & A.Schreib.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 16 documented
Calobota pungens (Thunb.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 16 documented
Calobota linearifolia (E.Mey.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 12 documented
Calobota spinescens (Harv.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 4 documented
Calobota acanthoclada (Dinter) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota cinerea (E.Mey.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota cuspidosa (Burch.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota elongata (Thunb.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota lotononoides (Schltr.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota namibensis Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota obovata (Schinz) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota psiloloba (E.Mey.) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Calobota saharae (Coss. & Durieu) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 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.