Cordyline

Accepted species 26 Documented here 11 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 26 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
Cordyline australis (G.Forst.) Endl. 2,578 documented
Cordyline banksii Hook.f. 339 documented
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl. 176 documented
Cordyline rubra Otto & A.Dietr. 122 documented
Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A.Chev. 90 documented
Cordyline pumilio Hook.f. 70 documented
Cordyline petiolaris (Domin) Pedley 56 documented
Cordyline stricta (Sims) Endl. 36 documented
Cordyline manners-suttoniae F.Muell. 14 documented
Cordyline congesta (Sweet) Steud. 8 documented
Cordyline mauritiana (Lam.) J.F.Macbr. 5 documented
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Cordyline sellowiana Kunth 2 below the evidence gate
Cordyline angustissima K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline cannifolia R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline casanovae Linden ex André 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline forbesii Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline gibbingsae Carse 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline lateralis Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline ledermannii K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline matthewsii Carse 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline minutiflora Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline murchisoniae F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline neocaledonica (Baker) B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline racemosa Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cordyline schlechteri Lauterb. 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.