Cnestis

Accepted species 13 Documented here 2 Family Connaraceae

Accepted species 13 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
Cnestis polyphylla Lam. 8 documented
Cnestis ferruginea Vahl ex DC. 5 documented
Cnestis corniculata Lam. 1 below the evidence gate
Cnestis palala (Lour.) Merr. 1 below the evidence gate
Cnestis bomiensis Lemmens 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis macrantha Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis macrophylla Gilg ex G.Schellenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis mannii (Baker) G.Schellenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis mildbraedii Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis racemosa G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis uncata Lemmens 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis urens Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Cnestis yangambiensis Louis ex Troupin 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.