Dianthera

Accepted species 40 Documented here 11 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 40 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
Dianthera americana L. 807 documented
Dianthera ovata Walter 60 documented
Dianthera angusta (Chapm.) Small 52 documented
Dianthera comata L. 40 documented
Dianthera breviflora (Nees) Hemsl. 37 documented
Dianthera crassifolia Chapm. 22 documented
Dianthera candicans (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Hemsl. 19 documented
Dianthera secunda (Lam.) Griseb. 17 documented
Dianthera candelariae (Oerst.) Hemsl. 6 documented
Dianthera laevilinguis (Nees) Lindau 6 documented
Dianthera pectoralis (Jacq.) J.F.Gmel. 3 documented
Dianthera glabra (Oerst.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Hemsl. 2 below the evidence gate
Dianthera lindeniana (Nees) Hemsl. 2 below the evidence gate
Dianthera androsaemifolia (Nees) Griseb. 1 below the evidence gate
Dianthera calycina (Nees) B.D.Jacks. 1 below the evidence gate
Dianthera incerta Brandegee 1 below the evidence gate
Dianthera angustifolia (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera appendiculata Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera arvensis Vell. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera brasiliensis Vell. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera cayennensis (Nees) Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera dasyclados (Mart. ex Nees) Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera eustachiana (Jacq.) J.F.Gmel. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera guianensis N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera hookeriana (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera inaequalis (Benth.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera laeta (Nees) Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera longiflora (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera oblonga (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera peploides Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera pleurolarynx S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera polygaloides S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera racemosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera reptans (Sw.) J.F.Gmel. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera rigida (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera rugeliana Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera sagrana (A.Rich.) Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera sessilis (Jacq.) J.F.Gmel. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera speciosa (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianthera sulfurea Donn.Sm. 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.