Ctenium

Accepted species 19 Documented here 3 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 19 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
Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood 101 documented
Ctenium concinnum Nees 24 documented
Ctenium floridanum (Hitchc.) Hitchc. 7 documented
Ctenium bahiense Longhi-Wagner 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium brachystachyum (Nees) Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium brevispicatum J.G.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium canescens Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium chapadense (Trin.) Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium cirrosum (Nees) Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium concissum Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium elegans Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium ledermannii Pilg. 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium longiglume Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium newtonii Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium planifolium (J.Presl) Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium plumosum (Hitchc.) Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium polystachyum Balansa 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium sesquiflorum Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Ctenium villosum Berhaut 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.