Comesperma

Accepted species 33 Documented here 14 Family Polygalaceae

Accepted species 33 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
Comesperma volubile Labill. 200 documented
Comesperma ericinum DC. 189 documented
Comesperma calymega Labill. 45 documented
Comesperma virgatum Labill. 25 documented
Comesperma esulifolium (Gand.) Prain 23 documented
Comesperma retusum Labill. 22 documented
Comesperma sphaerocarpum Steetz 20 documented
Comesperma hispidulum Pedley 15 documented
Comesperma polygaloides F.Muell. 15 documented
Comesperma breviflorum Pedley 13 documented
Comesperma scoparium Drum. 12 documented
Comesperma ciliatum Steetz 8 documented
Comesperma defoliatum F.Muell. 7 documented
Comesperma integerrimum Endl. 4 documented
Comesperma patentifolium F.Muell. 2 below the evidence gate
Comesperma spinosum F.Muell. 2 below the evidence gate
Comesperma flavum DC. 1 below the evidence gate
Comesperma acerosum Steetz 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma apyllum R.Br. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma calcicola Keighery 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma confertum Labill. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma drummondii Steetz 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma griffinii Keighery 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma lanceolatum R.Br. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma nudiusculum DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma oblongatum (R.Br. ex Benth.) Pedley 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma pallidum Pedley 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma praecelsum F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma rhadinocarpum F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma secundum Banks ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma sylvestre Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma viscidulum F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Comesperma xanthocarpum Steud. 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.