Helictochloa

Accepted species 23 Documented here 3 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Helictochloa pratensis (L.) Romero Zarco 15 documented
Helictochloa bromoides (Gouan) Romero Zarco 14 documented
Helictochloa hookeri (Scribn.) Romero Zarco 14 documented
Helictochloa versicolor (Vill.) Romero Zarco 2 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa × talaverae (Romero Zarco) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa aetolica (Rech.f.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa agropyroides (Boiss.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa albinervis (Boiss.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa armeniaca (Schischk.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa blaui (Asch. & Janka) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa cincinnata (Ten.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa compressa (Heuff.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa crassifolia (Font Quer) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa dahurica (Kom.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa gervaisii (Holub) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa hackelii (Henriq.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa levis (Hack.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa lusitanica (Romero Zarco) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa marginata (Lowe) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa murcica (Holub) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa planiculmis (Schrad.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa praeusta (Rchb.) Romero Zarco 0 below the evidence gate
Helictochloa pruinosa (Hack. & Trab.) Romero Zarco 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.