Funastrum

Accepted species 23 Documented here 14 Family Apocynaceae

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
Funastrum heterophyllum (Engelm. ex Torr.) Standl. 641 documented
Funastrum clausum (Jacq.) Schltr. 257 documented
Funastrum cynanchoides (Decne.) Schltr. 200 documented
Funastrum hirtellum (A.Gray) Schltr. 168 documented
Funastrum crispum (Benth.) Schltr. 146 documented
Funastrum angustifolium (Pers.) Liede & Meve 138 documented
Funastrum elegans (Decne.) Schltr. 77 documented
Funastrum pannosum (Decne.) Schltr. 51 documented
Funastrum arenarium (Decne. ex Benth.) Liede 21 documented
Funastrum torreyi (A.Gray) Schltr. 15 documented
Funastrum angustissimum (Andersson) E.Fourn. 10 documented
Funastrum utahense (Engelm.) Liede & Meve 9 documented
Funastrum peninsulare (S.F.Blake) Liede & Meve 8 documented
Funastrum gracile (Decne.) Schltr. 6 documented
Funastrum lindenianum (Decne.) Schltr. 3 below the evidence gate
Funastrum bilobum (Hook. & Arn.) J.F.Macbr. 1 below the evidence gate
Funastrum glaucum (Kunth) Schltr. 1 below the evidence gate
Funastrum flavum (Meyen) Malme 0 below the evidence gate
Funastrum odoratum (Hemsl.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Funastrum refractum (Donn.Sm.) Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Funastrum rupicola Goyder 0 below the evidence gate
Funastrum saganii M.G.Chávez, Lozada-Pérez & L.O.Alvarado 0 below the evidence gate
Funastrum suffrutescens E.Fourn. 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.