Forestiera

Accepted species 23 Documented here 10 Family Oleaceae

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
Forestiera pubescens Nutt. 930 documented
Forestiera reticulata Torr. 359 documented
Forestiera segregata (Jacq.) Krug & Urb. 149 documented
Forestiera angustifolia Torr. 129 documented
Forestiera acuminata (Michx.) Poir. 59 documented
Forestiera phillyreoides (Benth.) Torr. 40 documented
Forestiera ligustrina (Michx.) Poir. 34 documented
Forestiera rhamnifolia Griseb. 16 documented
Forestiera rotundifolia (Brandegee) Standl. 5 documented
Forestiera durangensis Standl. 3 documented
Forestiera macrocarpa Brandegee 2 below the evidence gate
Forestiera cartaginensis Donn.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera corollata Cornejo & Wallander 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera ecuadorensis Cornejo & Bonifaz 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera eggersiana Krug 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera godfreyi L.C.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera isabelae Hammel & Cornejo 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera racemosa S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera rericulata Torr. 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera selleana Urb. & Ekman 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera shrevei Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera tomentosa S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Forestiera veracruzana Cast.-Campos & Pal.-Wass. 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.