Crossandra

Accepted species 54 Documented here 7 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 54 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
Crossandra greenstockii S.Moore 34 documented
Crossandra infundibuliformis (L.) Nees 27 documented
Crossandra fruticulosa Lindau 19 documented
Crossandra mucronata Lindau 6 documented
Crossandra albolineata Benoist 4 documented
Crossandra grandidieri (Baill.) Benoist 4 documented
Crossandra subacaulis C.B.Clarke 4 documented
Crossandra nilotica Oliv. 2 below the evidence gate
Crossandra massaica Mildbr. 1 below the evidence gate
Crossandra nobilis Benoist 1 below the evidence gate
Crossandra stenandrium (Nees) Lindau 1 below the evidence gate
Crossandra acutiloba Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra angolensis S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra arenicola Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra armandii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra baccarinii Fiori 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra benoistii Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra cephalostachya Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra cinnabarina Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra cloiselii S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra douillotii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra flava Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra flavicaulis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra friesiorum Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra horrida Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra humbertii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra isaloensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra johanninae Fiori 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra leikipiensis Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra leucodonta Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra longehirsuta Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra longipes S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra longispica Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra multidentata Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra obanensis Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra pilosa (Benoist) Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra pinguior S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra poissonii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra praecox Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra primuloides Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra puberula Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra pungens Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra pyrophila Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra quadridentata Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra raripila Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra rupestris Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra spinescens Dunkley 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra spinosa Beck 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra stenostachya (Lindau) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra strobilifera (Lam.) Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra sulphurea G.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra tridentata Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra tsingyensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Crossandra vestita Benoist 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.