Heteranthera

Accepted species 20 Documented here 8 Family Pontederiaceae

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
Heteranthera dubia (Jacq.) MacMill. 150 documented
Heteranthera limosa (Sw.) Willd. 72 documented
Heteranthera reniformis Ruiz & Pav. 53 documented
Heteranthera callifolia Rchb. ex Kunth 15 documented
Heteranthera mexicana S.Watson 5 documented
Heteranthera rotundifolia (Kunth) Griseb. 4 documented
Heteranthera zosterifolia Mart. 4 documented
Heteranthera missouriensis C.N.Horn 3 documented
Heteranthera pauciflora C.N.Horn 2 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera peduncularis Benth. 1 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera catharinensis C.N.Horn & M.Pell. 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera gardneri (Hook.f.) M.Pell. 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera longirachilla D.J.Sousa & Giul. 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera lutea (H.Perrier) M.Pell. 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera multiflora (Griseb.) C.N.Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera oblongifolia Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera pumila M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera seubertiana Solms 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera spicata C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Heteranthera yucatana Carnevali, J.L.Tapia & J.R.Grande 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.