Celosia

Accepted species 51 Documented here 5 Family Amaranthaceae

Accepted species 51 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
Celosia argentea L. 420 documented
Celosia floribunda A.Gray 50 documented
Celosia nitida Vahl 48 documented
Celosia spicata (Thouars) Spreng. 14 documented
Celosia virgata Jacq. 4 documented
Celosia angustifolia Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia anthelminthica Asch. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia bakeri C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia baronii Cavaco 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia benguellensis C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia boivinii Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia bonnivairii Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia brasiliensis Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia brevispicata C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia chenopodiifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia chiapensis Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia corymbifera Didr. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia elegantissima Hauman 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia expansifila C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia fadenorum C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia globosa Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia grandifolia Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia hastata Lopr. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia humbertiana Cavaco 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia isertii C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia leptostachya Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia loandensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia longifolia Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia madagascariensis Poir. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia micrantha Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia monosperma Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia moquinii Guill. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia nervosa C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia orcuttii Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia palmeri S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia pandurata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia patentiloba C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia persicaria Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia polygonoides Retz. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia polystachia (Forssk.) C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia pseudovirgata Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia pulchella Moq. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia richardsiae C.C.Towns. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia salicifolia Lopr. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia schweinfurthiana Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia staticodes Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia stuhlmanniana Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia taitoensis Hayata 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia trigyna L. 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia triuncinella Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Celosia vanderystii Schinz 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.