Cecropia

Accepted species 66 Documented here 20 Family Urticaceae

Accepted species 66 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
Cecropia pachystachya Trécul 129 documented
Cecropia obtusifolia Bertol. 119 documented
Cecropia glaziovii Snethl. 104 documented
Cecropia peltata L. 89 documented
Cecropia schreberiana Miq. 45 documented
Cecropia hololeuca Miq. 43 documented
Cecropia angustifolia Trécul 26 documented
Cecropia membranacea Trécul 16 documented
Cecropia polystachya Trécul 11 documented
Cecropia sciadophylla Mart. 11 documented
Cecropia palmata Willd. 10 documented
Cecropia strigosa Trécul 10 documented
Cecropia concolor Willd. 9 documented
Cecropia telenitida Cuatrec. 9 documented
Cecropia insignis Liebm. 6 documented
Cecropia maxima Snethl. 6 documented
Cecropia tacuna C.C.Berg & P.Franco 6 documented
Cecropia telealba Cuatrec. 6 documented
Cecropia distachya Huber 4 documented
Cecropia obtusa Trécul 4 documented
Cecropia elongata Rusby 2 below the evidence gate
Cecropia marginalis Cuatrec. 2 below the evidence gate
Cecropia purpurascens C.C.Berg 2 below the evidence gate
Cecropia ficifolia Warb. ex Snethl. 1 below the evidence gate
Cecropia latiloba Miq. 1 below the evidence gate
Cecropia longipes Pittier 1 below the evidence gate
Cecropia metensis Cuatrec. 1 below the evidence gate
Cecropia pastasana Diels 1 below the evidence gate
Cecropia ulei Snethl. 1 below the evidence gate
Cecropia velutinella Diels 1 below the evidence gate
Cecropia albicans Trécul 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia andina Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia angulata I.W.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia annulata C.C.Berg & P.Franco 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia bullata C.C.Berg & P.Franco 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia candida Snethl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia chlorostachya C.C.Berg & P.Franco 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia david-smithii C.C.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia dealbata B.S.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia engleriana Snethl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia gabrielis Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia garciae Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia goudotiana Trécul 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia granvilleana C.C.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia herthae Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia heterochroma C.C.Berg & P.Franco 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia hispidissima Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia idroboi Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia integra Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia kavanayensis Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia litoralis Snethl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia megastachya Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia montana Warb. ex Snethl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia multisecta P.Franco & C.C.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia mutisiana Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia pittieri B.L.Rob. ex A.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia plicata Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia putumayonis Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia radlkoferana Aladar Richt. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia reticulata Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia sararensis Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia saxatilis Snethl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia silvae C.C.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia subintegra Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia utcubambana Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Cecropia virgusa Cuatrec. 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.