Clitoria

Accepted species 70 Documented here 11 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 70 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
Clitoria mariana L. 476 documented
Clitoria ternatea L. 367 documented
Clitoria fairchildiana R.A.Howard 20 documented
Clitoria fragrans Small 16 documented
Clitoria annua J.Graham 12 documented
Clitoria laurifolia Poir. 12 documented
Clitoria guianensis (Aubl.) Benth. 8 documented
Clitoria mexicana Link 4 documented
Clitoria javitensis (Kunth) Benth. 3 documented
Clitoria polystachya Benth. 3 documented
Clitoria sagotii Fantz 3 documented
Clitoria falcata Lam. 20 below the evidence gate
Clitoria brachycalyx Harms 1 below the evidence gate
Clitoria cordobensis Burkart 1 below the evidence gate
Clitoria triflora S.Watson 1 below the evidence gate
Clitoria amazonum Mart. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria andrei Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria arborea Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria arborescens R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria australis Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria brachystegia Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria brasilensis Sessé & Moc. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria canescens Pittier ex Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria cavalcantei Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria cearensis Huber 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria chanondii Chuakul 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria cordiformis Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria coriacea Schery 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria dendrina Pittier 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria densiflora (Benth.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria epetiolata Burkart 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria flagellaris (Benth.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria flexuosa Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria froesii Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria glaberrima Pittier 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria hanceana Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria hermannii Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria heterophylla Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria humilis Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria irwinii Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria javanica Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria juninensis Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria kaessneri Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria kaieteurensis Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria lasciva Bojer ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria leptostachya Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria linearis Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria macrophylla Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria magentea Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria monticola Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria moyobambensis Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria mucronulata Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria nana Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria nervosa Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria obidensis Huber 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria occidentalis Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria pendens Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria plumosa Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria pozuzoensis J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria quadalupensis Scop. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria selloi Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria simplicifolia (Kunth) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria snethlageae Ducke 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria speciosa Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria steyermarkii Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria stipularis Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria tomentosa Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria tristis Ten. 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria tunuhiensis Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Clitoria woytkowskii Fantz 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.