Diastema

Accepted species 21 Documented here 2 Family Gesneriaceae

Accepted species 21 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
Diastema affine Fritsch 12 documented
Diastema vexans H.E.Moore 7 documented
Diastema racemiferum Benth. 2 below the evidence gate
Diastema calcicola J.L.Clark & Moonlight 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema comiferum (DC.) Benth. ex Walp. 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema fimbratilobum Moonlight & J.L.Clark 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema gymnoleucum Gilli 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema hispidum (DC.) Fritsch 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema kalbreyeri Fritsch 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema latiflorum Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema maculatum (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp. 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema micranthum Donn.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema purpurascens Rusby 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema quinquevulnerum Planch. & Linden 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema rupestre Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema scabrum (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp. 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema sodiroanum Fritsch 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema tenerrimum (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp. 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema urticifolium (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp. 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema weberbaueri Fritsch 0 below the evidence gate
Diastema williamsii Rusby 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.