Commelina

Accepted species 227 Documented here 35 Family Commelinaceae

Accepted species 227 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
Commelina erecta L. 2,157 documented
Commelina communis L. 1,983 documented
Commelina diffusa Burm.f. 848 documented
Commelina benghalensis L. 421 documented
Commelina africana L. 360 documented
Commelina virginica L. 333 documented
Commelina cyanea R.Br. 282 documented
Commelina dianthifolia Redouté 171 documented
Commelina tuberosa L. 130 documented
Commelina lanceolata R.Br. 60 documented
Commelina auriculata Blume 56 documented
Commelina eckloniana Kunth 46 documented
Commelina forskaolii Vahl 43 documented
Commelina ensifolia R.Br. 33 documented
Commelina paludosa Blume 26 documented
Commelina suffruticosa Blume 26 documented
Commelina undulata R.Br. 25 documented
Commelina attenuata Vahl 20 documented
Commelina subulata Roth 17 documented
Commelina obliqua Vahl 16 documented
Commelina livingstonii C.B.Clarke 14 documented
Commelina nivea López-Ferr., Espejo & Ceja 14 documented
Commelina longicaulis Jacq. 11 documented
Commelina bella Oberm. 10 documented
Commelina elliptica Kunth 7 documented
Commelina platyphylla Klotzsch ex Seub. 6 documented
Commelina platyphylla Klotzsch 6 documented
Commelina caroliniana Walter 5 documented
Commelina rufipes Seub. 5 documented
Commelina scabra Benth. 5 documented
Commelina fluviatilis Brenan 3 documented
Commelina gambiae C.B.Clarke 3 documented
Commelina hirsuta (Wight) Bedd. 3 documented
Commelina modesta Oberm. 3 documented
Commelina sikkimensis C.B.Clarke 3 documented
Commelina badamica Nandikar & Gurav 2 below the evidence gate
Commelina persicariifolia Redouté 2 below the evidence gate
Commelina petersii Hassk. 2 below the evidence gate
Commelina robusta Kunth 2 below the evidence gate
Commelina clavata C.B.Clarke 1 below the evidence gate
Commelina jaliscana Matuda 1 below the evidence gate
Commelina acutispatha De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina acutissima Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina agrostophylla F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina albescens Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina albiflora Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina almandina M.Pell. & Cornejo 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina amplexicaulis Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina andamanica S.M.Joseph & Nampy 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina appendiculata C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina aquatica J.K.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina arenicola Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina ascendens J.K.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina aspera G.Don ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina aurantiiflora Faden & Raynsf. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina avenifolia J.Graham 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina bambusifolia Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina barbata Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina beccariana Martelli 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina bequaertii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina bicaeruloflora S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina boissieriana C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina bracteosa Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina bravoa Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina calandrinioides (F.Muell.) Zuntini & Frankel 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina cameroonensis J.K.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina capitata Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina catharinensis Hassemer, J.P.R.Ferreira, Funez & J.D.Medeiros 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina chamissonis Klotzsch ex C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina chayaensis Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina ciliata T.D.Stanley 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina clarkeana K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina clavatoides Nampy & S.M.Joseph 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina congesta C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina congestispatha López-Ferr., Espejo & Ceja 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina corbisieri De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina corradii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina crassicaulis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina cufodontii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina dammeriana K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina danxiaensis Q.Fan, Long Y.Wang & W.Guo 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina deflexa Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina dekindtiana Fritsch 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina demissa C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina dielsii Herter 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina disperma Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina droogmansiana De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina durandii R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina efoveolata (C.B.Clarke) L.M.Campb. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina firma Welw. ex C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina foliacea Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina frutescens Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina gelatinosa Edgew. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina geniculata Ham. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina gigas Small 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina giorgii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina gourmaensis A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina grandis Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina grossa C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina haitiensis Urb. & Ekman 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina heterosperma Blatt. & Hallb. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina hispida Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina hockii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina holubii C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina homblei De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina huillensis Welw. ex C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina humblotii H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina huntii M.Pell. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina imberbis Ehrenb. ex Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina indehiscens E.Barnes 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina irumuensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina jamesonii C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina kapiriensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina kilanga De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina kisantuensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina kituloensis Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina kotschyi Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina latifolia Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina latifolia Hochst. ex C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina leiocarpa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina littoralis M.C.Naik & Nandikar 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina longicapsa C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina longicaulis Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina longifolia Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina loureiroi Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina lukei Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina lukonzolwensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina luteiflora De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina luzonensis Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina macrospatha Gilg & Ledermann ex Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina macrosperma J.K.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina maculata Edgew. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina madagascarica C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina major H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina martyrum H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina mascarenica C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina mathewsii (C.B.Clarke) Faden & D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina melanorrhiza Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina membranacea Robyns 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina mensensis Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina merkeri K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina microspatha K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina milne-redheadii Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina montigena H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina mwatayamvoana P.A.Duvign. & Dewit 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina neurophylla C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina nigritana Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina nyasensis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina occulta D.Juárez 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina oligotricha Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina orchidophylla Faden & Layton 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina paleata Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina pallida Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina pallidispatha Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina phaeochaeta Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina polhillii Faden & M.H.Alford 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina praecox T.C.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina pseudomonosperma (Kuntze) L.M.Campb. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina pseudopurpurea Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina pseudoscaposa De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina purpurea C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina pycnospatha Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina pynaertii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina quarrei De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina queretarensis López-Ferr., Espejo & Ceja 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina ramosissima López-Ferr., Espejo & Ceja 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina ramulosa (C.B.Clarke) H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rebmanii León de la Luz 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina reflexa Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina reptans Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina reticulata Stanley 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina reygaerti De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rhodesica Norl. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina robynsii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina roensis M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rogersii Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina roseo-purpurea Herter 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rosulata Faden & Layton 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rotusta Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina ruandensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rubens Redouté 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rupestris Nandikar & Gurav 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rupicola Font Quer 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina rzedowskii López-Ferr., Espejo & Ceja 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina saxatilis H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina saxosa De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina scabrata Seub. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina scandens Welw. ex C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina scaposa C.B.Clarke ex De Wild. & T.Durand 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina schinzii C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina schliebenii Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina schweinfurthii C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina shengmushanensis S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina shinsendaensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina singularis Vell. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina socorrogonzaleziae Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina somalensis Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina songgangensis S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina spectabilis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina sphaerorrhizoma Faden & Layton 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina standleyi Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina stefaniniana Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina subcucullata C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina subscabrifolia De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina sugariae M.Pell. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina sulcatisperma Faden 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina sylvatica De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina texcocana Matuda 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina trachysperma Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina transversifolia De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina triangulispatha Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina tricarinata T.D.Stanley 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina tricolor E.Barnes 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina trilobosperma K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina umbellata Schumach. & Thonn. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina ussilensis Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina velutina Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina vermoesenii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina vestita Seub. 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina welwitschii C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina wightii Raizada 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina wildemanii R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina youngii Nandikar 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina zambesica C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina zenkeri C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina zeylanica Falkenberg 0 below the evidence gate
Commelina zigzag P.A.Duvign. & Dewit 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.