Cussonia

Accepted species 20 Documented here 10 Family Araliaceae

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
Cussonia spicata Thunb. 285 documented
Cussonia thyrsiflora Thunb. 247 documented
Cussonia paniculata Eckl. & Zeyh. 96 documented
Cussonia natalensis Sond. 50 documented
Cussonia sphaerocephala Strey 41 documented
Cussonia zuluensis Strey 13 documented
Cussonia nicholsonii Strey 10 documented
Cussonia transvaalensis Reyneke 8 documented
Cussonia gamtoosensis Strey 6 documented
Cussonia arenicola Strey 3 documented
Cussonia angolensis (Seem.) Hiern 2 below the evidence gate
Cussonia arborea Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia bancoensis Aubrév. & Pellegr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia brieyi De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia corbisieri De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia holstii Harms ex Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia jatrophoides Hutch. & E.A.Bruce 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia ostinii Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia sessilis Lebrun 0 below the evidence gate
Cussonia zimmermannii Harms 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.