Desmoncus

Accepted species 24 Documented here 2 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Desmoncus orthacanthos Mart. 10 documented
Desmoncus stans Grayum & de Nevers 9 documented
Desmoncus chinantlensis Liebm. ex Mart. 2 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus cirrhifer A.H.Gentry & Zardini 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus costaricensis (Kuntze) Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus giganteus A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus horridus Splitg. ex Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus interjectus A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus kunarius de Nevers ex A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus latisectus Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus leptoclonos Drude 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus loretanus A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus madrensis A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus mitis Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus moorei A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus myriacanthos Dugand 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus obovoideus A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus osensis A.J.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus parvulus L.H.Bailey 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus polyacanthos Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus prunifer Poepp. ex Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus pumilus Trail 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus setosus Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Desmoncus vacivus L.H.Bailey 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.