Chloris

Accepted species 54 Documented here 14 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 54 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
Chloris barbata Sw. 585 documented
Chloris verticillata Nutt. 363 documented
Chloris virgata Sw. 355 documented
Chloris gayana Kunth 230 documented
Chloris cucullata Bisch. 172 documented
Chloris truncata R.Br. 105 documented
Chloris formosana (Honda) Keng 56 documented
Chloris pycnothrix Trin. 50 documented
Chloris ventricosa R.Br. 34 documented
Chloris divaricata R.Br. 22 documented
Chloris andropogonoides E.Fourn. 16 documented
Chloris radiata (L.) Sw. 7 documented
Chloris pectinata Benth. 3 documented
Chloris texensis Nash 3 documented
Chloris filiformis (Vahl) Poir. 1 below the evidence gate
Chloris humbertiana A.Camus 1 below the evidence gate
Chloris submutica Kunth 1 below the evidence gate
Chloris affinis Caro & E.A.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris amethystea Hochst. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris arenaria Hitchc. & Ekman 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris berazainiae Catasús 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris boliviensis Renvoize 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris bournei Rang. & Tadul. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris burmensis D.E.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris castilloniana Parodi 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris circumfontinalis Fahey & Fensham 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris clementis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris cruciata (L.) Sw. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris cubensis Hitchc. & Ekman 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris diluta Renvoize 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris ekmanii Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris flabellata (Hack.) Launert 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris flagellifera (Nees) P.M.Peterson 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris halophila Parodi 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris jubaensis Cope 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris lobata Lazarides 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris mensensis (Schweinf.) Cufod. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris montana Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris mossambicensis K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris nutans (Stapf) P.M.Peterson 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris orthonoton Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris paniculata Scribn. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris pilosa Schumach. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris pumilio R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris quinquesetica Bhide 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris robusta Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris ruahensis Renvoize 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris rufescens Lag. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris sagrana A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris sesquiflora Burkart 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris subdolichostachya Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris suringarii Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris wightiana Nees ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Chloris woodii Renvoize 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.