Castela

Accepted species 19 Documented here 7 Family Simaroubaceae

Accepted species 19 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
Castela erecta Turpin 113 documented
Castela peninsularis Rose 55 documented
Castela emoryi (A.Gray) Moran & Felger 51 documented
Castela galapageia Hook.f. 28 documented
Castela tortuosa Liebm. 13 documented
Castela coccinea Griseb. 11 documented
Castela tweediei Planch. 8 documented
Castela calcicola (Britton & Small) Ekman ex Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Castela depressa Turpin 0 below the evidence gate
Castela greuteri A.Noa 0 below the evidence gate
Castela jacquiniifolia (Small) Ekman ex Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Castela juyyaania Pío-León & Carrillo-Gar. 0 below the evidence gate
Castela macrophylla Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Castela manitzii A.Noa 0 below the evidence gate
Castela polyandra Moran & Felger 0 below the evidence gate
Castela retusa Liebm. 0 below the evidence gate
Castela senticosa Majure & Clase 0 below the evidence gate
Castela spinosa Cronquist 0 below the evidence gate
Castela stewartii (C.H.Mull.) Moran & Felger 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.