Ceiba

Accepted species 19 Documented here 10 Family Malvaceae

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
Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. 407 documented
Ceiba aesculifolia (Kunth) Britten & Baker f. 143 documented
Ceiba speciosa (A.St.-Hil., A.Juss. & Cambess.) Ravenna 104 documented
Ceiba chodatii (Hassl.) Ravenna 29 documented
Ceiba erianthos (Cav.) K.Schum. 27 documented
Ceiba schottii Britten & Baker f. 23 documented
Ceiba trischistandra (A.Gray) Bakh. 20 documented
Ceiba pubiflora (A.St.-Hil.) K.Schum. 6 documented
Ceiba insignis (Kunth) P.E.Gibbs & Semir 3 documented
Ceiba samauma (Mart.) K.Schum. 3 documented
Ceiba glaziovii (Kuntze) K.Schum. 2 below the evidence gate
Ceiba boliviana Britten & Baker f. 0 below the evidence gate
Ceiba crispiflora (Kunth) Ravenna 0 below the evidence gate
Ceiba jasminodora (A.St.-Hil.) K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Ceiba lupuna P.E.Gibbs & Semir 0 below the evidence gate
Ceiba rubriflora Carv.-Sobr. & L.P.Queiroz 0 below the evidence gate
Ceiba salmonea (Ulbr.) Bakh. 0 below the evidence gate
Ceiba soluta (Donn.Sm.) Ravenna 0 below the evidence gate
Ceiba ventricosa (Nees & Mart.) Ravenna 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.