Hoffmannseggia

Accepted species 24 Documented here 13 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Hoffmannseggia glauca (Ortega) Eifert 329 documented
Hoffmannseggia microphylla Torr. 158 documented
Hoffmannseggia drepanocarpa A.Gray 16 documented
Hoffmannseggia tenella Tharp & L.O.Williams 16 documented
Hoffmannseggia oxycarpa Benth. 12 documented
Hoffmannseggia doellii Phil. 9 documented
Hoffmannseggia erecta Phil. 9 documented
Hoffmannseggia prostrata Lag. ex DC. 7 documented
Hoffmannseggia repens (Eastw.) Cockerell 7 documented
Hoffmannseggia trifoliata Cav. 6 documented
Hoffmannseggia drummondii Torr. & A.Gray 4 documented
Hoffmannseggia minor (Phil.) Ulibarri 4 documented
Hoffmannseggia peninsularis (Britton) Wiggins 4 documented
Hoffmannseggia viscosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Hook. & Arn. 3 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia intricata Brandegee 2 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia eremophila (Phil.) Burkart ex Ulibarri 1 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia pumilio (Griseb.) B.B.Simpson 1 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia aphylla (Phil.) G.P.Lewis & Sotuyo 0 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia arequipensis Ulibarri 0 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia glandulosa Willd. ex Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia humilis (M.Martens & Galeotti) Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia miranda Sandwith 0 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia watsonii (Fisher) Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Hoffmannseggia yaviensis Ulibarri 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.