Colutea

Accepted species 31 Documented here 7 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 31 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
Colutea arborescens L. 223 documented
Colutea cilicica Boiss. & Balansa 48 documented
Colutea insularis Browicz 9 documented
Colutea orientalis Mill. 7 documented
Colutea istria Mill. 5 documented
Colutea brevialata Lange 4 documented
Colutea paulsenii Freyn 3 documented
Colutea × media Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea × variabilis Browicz 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea abyssinica Kunth & C.D.Bouché 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea acutifolia Shap. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea afghanica Browicz 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea armata Hemsl. & Lace 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea armena Boiss. & A.Huet 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea atabajevi B.Fedtsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea atlantica Browicz 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea brachyptera Sumnev. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea buhsei (Boiss.) Shap. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea delavayi Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea gifana Parsa 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea gracilis Freyn & Sint. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea jarmolenkoi Shap. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea komarovii Takht. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea melanocalyx Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea multiflora Shap. ex Ali 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea nepalensis Sims 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea persica Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea porphyrogramma Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea procumbens Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea triphylla Bunge ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Colutea uniflora Beck ex Stapf 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.