Canscora

Accepted species 15 Documented here 5 Family Gentianaceae

Accepted species 15 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
Canscora diffusa (Vahl) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult. 25 documented
Canscora perfoliata Lam. 9 documented
Canscora tetraptera (Naik & Pokle) Arun Pr. & Sardesai 6 documented
Canscora andrographioides Griff. ex C.B.Clarke 4 documented
Canscora heteroclita (L.) Gilg 4 documented
Canscora concanensis C.B.Clarke 2 below the evidence gate
Canscora alata (Roth) Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora bhatiana K.S.Prasad & Raveendran 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora bidoupensis Hul 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora macrocalyx Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora pauciflora Dalzell 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora roxburghii Arn. ex Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora schultesii Wall. ex Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora shrirangiana Kambale, Kolte & A.Deshp. 0 below the evidence gate
Canscora stricta Sedgw. 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.