Glycyrrhiza

Accepted species 18 Documented here 5 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 18 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
Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh 593 documented
Glycyrrhiza echinata L. 114 documented
Glycyrrhiza glabra L. 97 documented
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. ex DC. 89 documented
Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa (Lindl.) J.M.Black 23 documented
Glycyrrhiza aspera Pall. 2 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza astragalina Gillies ex Hook. & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza bucharica Regel 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza foetida Desf. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza gontscharovii Maslenn. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza hybrida Gueldenst. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza inflata Batalin 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza spinescens Sieber ex Rchb. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza squamulosa Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza triphylla Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis S.H.Cheng & L.K.Tai ex P.C.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Glycyrrhiza zaissanica Serg. 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.