Elytraria

Accepted species 23 Documented here 4 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Elytraria imbricata (Vahl) Pers. 115 documented
Elytraria caroliniensis (J.F.Gmel.) Pers. 16 documented
Elytraria bromoides Oerst. 12 documented
Elytraria acaulis (L.f.) Lindau 8 documented
Elytraria cubana Alain 1 below the evidence gate
Elytraria bissei H.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria carolinensis Pers. 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria filicaulis Borhidi & O.Muñiz 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria ivorensis Dokosi 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria klugii Leonard 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria macrophylla Leonard 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria madagascariensis (Benoist) E.Hossain 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria marginata Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria maritima J.K.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria mexicana Fryxell & S.D.Koch 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria minor Dokosi 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria nodosa E.Hossain 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria planifolia Leonard 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria prolifera Leonard 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria serpens Greuter & R.Rankin 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria shaferi (P.Wilson) Leonard 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria spathulifolia Borhidi & O.Muñiz 0 below the evidence gate
Elytraria tuberosa Leonard 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.