Cliffortia

Accepted species 128 Documented here 88 Family Rosaceae

Accepted species 128 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
Cliffortia ruscifolia L. 751 documented
Cliffortia odorata L.f. 503 documented
Cliffortia strobilifera L. 487 documented
Cliffortia falcata L.f. 256 documented
Cliffortia stricta Weim. 242 documented
Cliffortia graminea L.f. 228 documented
Cliffortia atrata Weim. 179 documented
Cliffortia ferruginea L.f. 158 documented
Cliffortia burchellii Stapf 155 documented
Cliffortia serpyllifolia Cham. & Schltdl. 145 documented
Cliffortia schlechteri (Weim.) C.Whitehouse 134 documented
Cliffortia tuberculata (Harv.) Weim. 132 documented
Cliffortia obcordata L.f. 117 documented
Cliffortia arcuata Weim. 106 documented
Cliffortia cuneata Aiton 104 documented
Cliffortia polygonifolia L. 101 documented
Cliffortia crenata L.f. 99 documented
Cliffortia eriocephalina Cham. 83 documented
Cliffortia neglecta Schltr. 80 documented
Cliffortia juniperina L.f. 66 documented
Cliffortia subsetacea (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Diels ex Bolus & Wolley-Dod 66 documented
Cliffortia ilicifolia L. 61 documented
Cliffortia ramosissima Schltr. 51 documented
Cliffortia heterophylla Weim. 47 documented
Cliffortia hirsuta Eckl. & Zeyh. 46 documented
Cliffortia phillipsii Weim. 46 documented
Cliffortia pulchella L.f. 44 documented
Cliffortia filicaulis Cham. & Schltdl. 43 documented
Cliffortia linearifolia Eckl. & Zeyh. 43 documented
Cliffortia tridentata Willd. 43 documented
Cliffortia dregeana C.Presl 42 documented
Cliffortia grandifolia Eckl. & Zeyh. 40 documented
Cliffortia dentata Willd. 38 documented
Cliffortia phyllanthoides Schltr. 38 documented
Cliffortia teretifolia L.f. 38 documented
Cliffortia hirta Burm.f. 35 documented
Cliffortia reniformis (Weim.) C.Whitehouse 35 documented
Cliffortia theodori-friesii Weim. 34 documented
Cliffortia drepanoides Eckl. & Zeyh. 32 documented
Cliffortia obovata E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond. 31 documented
Cliffortia tricuspidata Harv. 28 documented
Cliffortia longifolia (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Weim. 27 documented
Cliffortia acanthophylla C.Whitehouse 26 documented
Cliffortia sericea Eckl. & Zeyh. 26 documented
Cliffortia filifolia L.f. 24 documented
Cliffortia dispar Weim. 23 documented
Cliffortia recurvata (Weim.) C.Whitehouse 23 documented
Cliffortia hantamensis Diels 22 documented
Cliffortia weimarckii C.Whitehouse 21 documented
Cliffortia pedunculata Schltr. 20 documented
Cliffortia polita Weim. 19 documented
Cliffortia denticulata (Weim.) C.Whitehouse 18 documented
Cliffortia aculeata Weim. 16 documented
Cliffortia carinata Weim. 16 documented
Cliffortia ceresana C.Whitehouse 16 documented
Cliffortia erectisepala Weim. 16 documented
Cliffortia ericifolia L.f. 16 documented
Cliffortia acockii Weim. 14 documented
Cliffortia propinqua Eckl. & Zeyh. 14 documented
Cliffortia pungens C.Presl 14 documented
Cliffortia virgata Weim. 14 documented
Cliffortia arborea Marloth 13 documented
Cliffortia repens Schltr. 13 documented
Cliffortia complanata E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond. 12 documented
Cliffortia lanceolata Weim. 12 documented
Cliffortia montana Weim. 11 documented
Cliffortia prionota C.Whitehouse 11 documented
Cliffortia dichotoma Fellingham 10 documented
Cliffortia esterhuyseniae Weim. 9 documented
Cliffortia ferricola C.Whitehouse 9 documented
Cliffortia ovalis Weim. 9 documented
Cliffortia paucistaminea Weim. 8 documented
Cliffortia acutifolia Weim. 7 documented
Cliffortia burgersii E.G.H.Oliv. & Fellingham 6 documented
Cliffortia densa Weim. 6 documented
Cliffortia glauca Weim. 6 documented
Cliffortia micrantha Weim. 6 documented
Cliffortia cruciata C.Whitehouse 5 documented
Cliffortia pterocarpa (Harv.) Weim. 5 documented
Cliffortia verrucosa Weim. 5 documented
Cliffortia alata N.E.Br. 4 documented
Cliffortia apiculata Weim. 4 documented
Cliffortia castanea Weim. 4 documented
Cliffortia nivenioides Fellingham 4 documented
Cliffortia rigida Weim. 4 documented
Cliffortia cervicornu Weim. 3 documented
Cliffortia hexandra Weim. 3 documented
Cliffortia uncinata Weim. 3 documented
Cliffortia anthospermoides Fellingham 2 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia dodecandra Weim. 2 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia pilifera Bolus 2 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia brevifolia Weim. 1 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia exilifolia Weim. 1 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia monophylla Weim. 1 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia amplexistipula Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia baccans Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia browniana Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia concinna Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia conifera E.G.H.Oliv. & Fellingham 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia crassinervis Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia crenulata Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia cristata Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia curvifolia Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia cymbifolia Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia filicauloides Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia geniculata Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia hermaphroditica Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia incana Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia integerrima Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia intermedia Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia lanata Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia lepida Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia marginata Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia mirabilis Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia multiformis Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia nitidula (Engl.) R.E.Fr. & T.C.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia oligodonta C.Whitehouse 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia reticulata Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia robusta Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia semiteres Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia setifolia Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia spathulata Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia strigosa Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia subdura Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia tenuis Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia triloba Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia varians Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Cliffortia viridis Weim. 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.