Gomphocarpus

Accepted species 20 Documented here 6 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 20 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
Gomphocarpus physocarpus E.Mey. 764 documented
Gomphocarpus cancellatus (Burm.f.) Bruyns 426 documented
Gomphocarpus fruticosus (L.) W.T.Aiton 386 documented
Gomphocarpus filiformis (E.Mey.) D.Dietr. 126 documented
Gomphocarpus glaucophyllus Schltr. 17 documented
Gomphocarpus sinaicus Boiss. 4 documented
Gomphocarpus semilunatus A.Rich. 1 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus abyssinicus Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus integer (N.E.Br.) Bullock 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus kaessneri (N.E.Br.) Goyder & Nicholas 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus munonquensis (S.Moore) Goyder & Nicholas 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus phillipsiae (N.E.Br.) Goyder 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus praticola (S.Moore) Goyder & Nicholas 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus purpurascens A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus rivularis Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus semiamplectens K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus stenophyllus Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus swynnertonii (S.Moore) Goyder & Nicholas 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus tenuifolius (N.E.Br.) Bullock 0 below the evidence gate
Gomphocarpus tomentosus Burch. 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.