Crusea

Accepted species 15 Documented here 6 Family Rubiaceae

Accepted species 15 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
Crusea hispida (Mill.) B.L.Rob. 42 documented
Crusea simplex (Willd.) J.H.Kirkbr. & Wiersema 36 documented
Crusea coccinea DC. 29 documented
Crusea longiflora (Roem. & Schult.) W.R.Anderson 26 documented
Crusea wrightii A.Gray 5 documented
Crusea calocephala DC. 3 documented
Crusea andersoniorum Lorence 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea calcicola Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea coronata B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea lucida Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea megalocarpa (A.Gray) S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea parviflora Hook. & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea psyllioides (Kunth) W.R.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea pulcherrima Borhidi & Salas-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Crusea setosa (M.Martens & Galeotti) Standl. & Steyerm. 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.