Elatine

Accepted species 30 Documented here 7 Family Elatinaceae

Accepted species 30 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
Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn. 38 documented
Elatine hexandra (Lapierre) DC. 16 documented
Elatine brachysperma A.Gray 10 documented
Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn. 8 documented
Elatine hydropiper L. 6 documented
Elatine alsinastrum L. 5 documented
Elatine triandra Schkuhr 4 documented
Elatine brochonii Clavaud 2 below the evidence gate
Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 2 below the evidence gate
Elatine ambigua Wight 1 below the evidence gate
Elatine californica A.Gray 1 below the evidence gate
Elatine camphylosperma Seub. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine chilensis Gay 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine ecuadoriensis Molau 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine fassettiana Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine fauquei Monod 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine glaziovii Nied. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine gussonei (Sommier) Brullo, Lanfr., Pavone & Ronsisv. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine heterandra H.Mason 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine hungarica Moesz 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine lindbergii Rohrb. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine lorentziana Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine macrocalyx Albr. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine macropoda Guss. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine madagascariensis H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine orthosperma Düben 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine paramoana Schmidt-M. & Bernal 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine peruviana Baehni & J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine rotundifolia Laegaard 0 below the evidence gate
Elatine rubella Rydb. 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.