Clethra

Accepted species 87 Documented here 17 Family Clethraceae

Accepted species 87 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
Clethra alnifolia L. 1,125 documented
Clethra acuminata Michx. 109 documented
Clethra arborea Aiton 71 documented
Clethra mexicana DC. 56 documented
Clethra barbinervis Siebold & Zucc. 55 documented
Clethra tomentosa Lam. 42 documented
Clethra fimbriata Kunth 31 documented
Clethra fagifolia Kunth 23 documented
Clethra rosei Britton 22 documented
Clethra purpusii L.M.González 10 documented
Clethra scabra Pers. 9 documented
Clethra suaveolens Turcz. 8 documented
Clethra lanata M.Martens & Galeotti 7 documented
Clethra rugosa Steyerm. 7 documented
Clethra hartwegii Britton 6 documented
Clethra vicentina Standl. 4 documented
Clethra ferruginea (Ruiz & Pav.) Link ex Spreng. 3 documented
Clethra chiapensis L.M.González 2 below the evidence gate
Clethra oleoides L.O.Williams 2 below the evidence gate
Clethra repanda Turcz. 2 below the evidence gate
Clethra × parvifolia Lundell 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra albertinae L.M.González 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra alcoceri Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra alexandri Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra arfakana Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra bodinieri H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra canescens Reinw. ex Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra cardenasii Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra castaneifolia Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra concordia D.A.Neill, H.Beltrán & Quizhpe 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra consimilis Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra conzattiana L.M.González 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra costaricensis Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra crispa Gust. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra cubensis A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra cuneata Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra delavayi Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra elongata Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra fabri Hance 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra fargesii Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra formosa E.Alfaro & J.F.Morales 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra fragrans L.M.González & R.Delgad. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra galeottiana Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra gelida Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra guyanensis Klotzsch ex Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra hendersonii Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra hirsutovillosa S.Valencia & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra hondurensis Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra javanica Turcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra kaipoensis H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra kebarensis Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra licanioides Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra longispicata J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra luzmariae L.M.González 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra macrophylla M.Martens & Galeotti 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra motozintlana L.M.González 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra oaxacana C.W.Ham. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra obovata (Ruiz & Pav.) G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra occidentalis (L.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra ovalifolia Turcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra pachecoana Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra pachyphylla Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra papuana J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra parallelinervia Gust. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra pedicellaris Turcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra peruviana Szyszyl. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra petelotii Dop & Troch.-Marq. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra poilanei Gagnep. ex Dop 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra pringlei S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra pulgarensis Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra pyrogena Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra retivenia Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra revoluta (Ruiz & Pav.) Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra secazu J.F.Morales 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra skutchii Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra sleumeriana K.S.Hao 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra standleyana L.M.González 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra sumatrana J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra sumbawaensis Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra symingtonii Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra tacanensis Lundell ex L.M.González 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra talamancana C.W.Ham. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra tomentella Rolfe ex Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra tutensis C.W.Ham. 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra tuxtlensis L.M.González 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra uleana Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Clethra zunila L.M.González 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.