Cyanotis

Accepted species 51 Documented here 10 Family Commelinaceae

Accepted species 51 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
Cyanotis speciosa (L.f.) Hassk. 320 documented
Cyanotis axillaris (L.) D.Don ex Sweet 52 documented
Cyanotis cristata (L.) D.Don 50 documented
Cyanotis fasciculata (B.Heyne ex Roth) Schult.f. 47 documented
Cyanotis tuberosa (Roxb.) Schult.f. 20 documented
Cyanotis lapidosa E.Phillips 17 documented
Cyanotis robusta Oberm. 8 documented
Cyanotis kawakamii Hayata 7 documented
Cyanotis villosa (Spreng.) Schult.f. 5 documented
Cyanotis ciliata (Blume) Bakh.f. 3 documented
Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B.Clarke 6 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis pachyrrhiza Oberm. 2 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis vivipara Dalzell 2 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis vaga (Lour.) Schult.f. 1 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis adscendens Dalzell 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis ake-assii Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis angusta C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis arcotensis R.S.Rao 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis beddomei (Hook.f.) Erhardt, Götz & Seybold 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis burmannia Wight 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis caespitosa Kotschy & Peyr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis ceylanica Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis cucullata (Roth) Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis cupricola P.A.Duvign. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis deccanensis Yugandhar, Sivaram., Savithr. & L.J.Singh 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis dybowskii Hua 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis epiphytica Blatt. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis flexuosa C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis foecunda DC. ex Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis ganganensis Schnell 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis grandidieri H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis hepperi Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis homblei De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis karliana Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis lanata Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis lanceolata Wight 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis longifolia Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis loureiroana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis lourensis Schnell 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis moluccana (Roxb.) Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis natalia Boluda & Tahin. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis nyctitropa Deflers 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis paludosa Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis pedunculata Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis pilosa Schult.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis polyrrhiza Hochst. ex Hassk. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis repens Faden & D.M.Cameron 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis reutiana Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis scaberula Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis somaliensis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Cyanotis thwaitesii Hassk. 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.