Gordonia

Accepted species 22 Documented here 1 Family Theaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Gordonia lasianthus (L.) Ellis 267 documented
Gordonia fruticosa (Schrad.) H.Keng 2 below the evidence gate
Gordonia acutifolia (Wawra) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia alpestris (Krug & Urb.) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia angustifolia (Britton & P.Wilson) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia barbinervis (Moric.) Walp. 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia benitoensis (Britton & P.Wilson) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia brenesii (Standl.) Q.Jiménez 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia cristalensis (Borhidi & O.Muñiz) Greuter & R.Rankin 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia curtyana (A.Rich.) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia ekmanii (O.C.Schmidt) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia haematoxylon Sw. 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia moaensis (Vict.) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia portoricensis (Krug & Urb.) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia pubescens Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia robusta (Kobuski) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia samuelssonii (O.C.Schmidt) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia spathulata (Kobuski) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia tomentosa (Mart.) Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia urbani (O.C.Schmidt) H.Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia villosa Macfad. 0 below the evidence gate
Gordonia wrightii (Griseb.) H.Keng 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.