Geophila

Accepted species 30 Documented here 3 Family Rubiaceae

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
Geophila herbacea (Jacq.) K.Schum. 86 documented
Geophila repens (L.) I.M.Johnst. 48 documented
Geophila macropoda (Ruiz & Pav.) DC. 15 documented
Geophila afzelii Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila aschersoniana Büttner 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila cordata Bello 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila cordifolia Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila croatii Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila emarginata K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila erythrocarpa Vanth. & Dessein 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila flaviflora Aké Assi 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila gracilis (Ruiz & Pav.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila hirta Korth. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila humifusa King & Gamble 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila ingens Wernham 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila lancistipula Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila macrocarpa (Müll.Arg.) M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila melanocarpa Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila minutiflora Alain 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila obvallata (Schumach. & Thonn.) Didr. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila orbicularis (Müll.Arg.) Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila pilosa H.Pearson 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila prancei Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila renaris De Wild. & T.Durand 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila scortechinii King 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila speciosa K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila tenuis (Müll.Arg.) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila uniflora Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila yunnanensis H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Geophila zollingeriana Miq. 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.