Dioon

Accepted species 18 Documented here 7 Family Zamiaceae

Accepted species 18 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
Dioon planifolium Salas-Mor., Chemnick & T.J.Greg. 32 documented
Dioon edule Lindl. 23 documented
Dioon angustifolium Miq. 9 documented
Dioon merolae De Luca, Sabato & Vázq.Torres 8 documented
Dioon purpusii Rose 8 documented
Dioon tomasellii De Luca, Sabato & Vázq.Torres 8 documented
Dioon spinulosum Dyer ex Eichler 6 documented
Dioon holmgrenii De Luca, Sabato & Vázq.Torres 2 below the evidence gate
Dioon argenteum T.J.Greg., Chemnick, Salas-Mor. & Vovides 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon califanoi De Luca & Sabato 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon caputoi De Luca, Sabato & Vázq.Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon mejiae Standl. & L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon oaxacensis Gut.Ortega, Pérez-Farr. & Vovides 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon rzedowskii De Luca, A.Moretti, Sabato & Vázq.Torres 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon salas-moralesiae Gut.Ortega & Pérez-Farr. 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon sonorense (De Luca, Sabato & Vázq.Torres) Chemnick, T.J.Greg. & Salas-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon stevensonii Nic.-Mor. & Vovides 0 below the evidence gate
Dioon vovidesii Gut.Ortega & Pérez-Farr. 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.