Heisteria

Accepted species 39 Documented here 4 Family Olacaceae

Accepted species 39 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
Heisteria acuminata (Bonpl.) Engl. 11 documented
Heisteria cauliflora Sm. 10 documented
Heisteria povedae Q.Jiménez & S.Knapp 7 documented
Heisteria spruceana Engl. 3 documented
Heisteria asplundii Sleumer 2 below the evidence gate
Heisteria silvianii Schwacke 2 below the evidence gate
Heisteria parvifolia Sm. 1 below the evidence gate
Heisteria amazonica Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria amphoricarpa (Ducke) Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria barbata Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria blanchetiana (Engl.) Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria citrifolia Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria coccinea Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria concinna Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria costaricensis Donn.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria cyathiformis Little 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria densifrons Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria duckei Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria erythrocarpa P.Jørg. & C.Ulloa 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria huberiana Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria insculpta Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria latifolia Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria laxiflora Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria longipedicellata D.S.Lucena & M.Alves 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria macrophylla Oerst. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria maguirei Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria maytenoides Spruce ex Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria media S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria nitida Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria ovata Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria pacifica P.Jørg. & C.Ulloa 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria pentandra (Benth. ex Reissek) Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria perianthomega (Vell.) Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria salicifolia Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria scandens Ducke 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria skutchii Sleumer 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria trillesiana Pierre ex Heckel 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria trillesiana Pierre 0 below the evidence gate
Heisteria zimmereri Engl. 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.