Curculigo

Accepted species 25 Documented here 3 Family Hypoxidaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. 72 documented
Curculigo capitulata (Lour.) Kuntze 51 documented
Curculigo ensifolia R.Br. 8 documented
Curculigo latifolia Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton 2 below the evidence gate
Curculigo pilosa (Schumach. & Thonn.) Engl. 1 below the evidence gate
Curculigo annamitica Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo breviscapa S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo conoc Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo crassifolia (Baker) Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo disticha Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo erecta Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo fabrei Hul 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo fakimensis (Odyuo, D.K.Roy & Khamdi) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo gracilis (Kurz) Wall. ex Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo janarthanamii Gore & S.P.Gaikwad 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo maharashtrensis M.R.Almeida & S.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo oligantha (C.E.C.Fisch.) Bennet & Raizada 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo prainiana (Deb) Bennet & Raizada 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo racemosa Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo sabui S.P.Gaikwad & Gore 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo savantwadiensis M.R.Almeida & S.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo scorzonerifolia (Lam.) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo sinensis S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo tonkinensis Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Curculigo trichocarpa (Wight) Bennet & Raizada 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.