Chironia

Accepted species 25 Documented here 9 Family Gentianaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Chironia baccifera L. 652 documented
Chironia tetragona L.f. 94 documented
Chironia linoides L. 86 documented
Chironia melampyrifolia Lam. 74 documented
Chironia jasminoides L. 46 documented
Chironia krebsii Griseb. 7 documented
Chironia purpurascens (E.Mey.) Benth. & Hook.f. 6 documented
Chironia decumbens Levyns 4 documented
Chironia serpyllifolia Lehm. 3 documented
Chironia albiflora Hilliard 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia angolensis Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia arenaria E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia baumiana Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia elgonensis Bullock 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia erythraeoides Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia fernandesiana Paiva & I.Nogueira 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia flexuosa Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia gratissima S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia katangensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia laxa Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia laxiflora Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia palustris Burch. 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia peduncularis Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia peglerae Prain 0 below the evidence gate
Chironia stokoei I.Verd. 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.