Cortaderia

Accepted species 20 Documented here 6 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 20 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
Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Asch. & Graebn. 2,084 documented
Cortaderia jubata (Lemoine) Stapf 241 documented
Cortaderia hieronymi (Kuntze) N.P.Barker & H.P.Linder 11 documented
Cortaderia rudiuscula Stapf 5 documented
Cortaderia nitida (Kunth) Pilg. 4 documented
Cortaderia araucana Stapf 3 documented
Cortaderia bifida Pilg. 2 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia atacamensis (Phil.) Pilg. 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia boliviensis M.Lyle 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia columbiana (Pilg.) Pilg. 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia echinata H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia egmontiana (Roem. & Schult.) M.Lyle ex Giussani, Soreng & Anton 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia hapalotricha (Pilg.) Conert 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia modesta (Döll) Hack. ex Dusén 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia planifolia Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia pungens Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia roraimensis (N.E.Br.) Pilg. 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia sericantha (Steud.) Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia speciosa (Nees) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Cortaderia vaginata Swallen 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.