Disporum

Accepted species 25 Documented here 8 Family Colchicaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Disporum kawakamii Hayata 58 documented
Disporum viridescens (Maxim.) Nakai 35 documented
Disporum smilacinum A.Gray 29 documented
Disporum sessile D.Don ex Schult. & Schult.f. 27 documented
Disporum shimadae Hayata 23 documented
Disporum cantoniense (Lour.) Merr. 15 documented
Disporum trabeculatum Gagnep. 7 documented
Disporum leucanthum H.Hara 5 documented
Disporum acuminatum C.H.Wright 1 below the evidence gate
Disporum × hishiyamanum K.Suzuki 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum acuminatissimum W.L.Sha 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum bodinieri (H.Lév. & Vaniot) F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum calcaratum D.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum dushanense Bo Wang, Ze H.Wang & Q.W.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum hainanense Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum jinfoshanense X.Z.Li, D.M.Zhang & D.Y.Hong 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum longistylum (H.Lév. & Vaniot) H.Hara 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum lutescens (Maxim.) Koidz. 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum megalanthum F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum mishmiense Hareesh & M.Sabu 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum nanchuanense X.X.Zhu & S.R.Yi 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum sinovietnamicum R.C.Hu & Y.Feng Huang 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum tonkinense Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum uniflorum Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Disporum xilingense X.X.Zhu & Lin Zhang 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.