Hygrophila

Accepted species 79 Documented here 10 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 79 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
Hygrophila auriculata (Schumach.) Heine 66 documented
Hygrophila polysperma (Roxb.) T.Anderson 43 documented
Hygrophila corymbosa (Blume) Lindau 35 documented
Hygrophila ringens (L.) R.Br. ex Spreng. 22 documented
Hygrophila angustifolia R.Br. 19 documented
Hygrophila serpyllum (Nees) T.Anderson 17 documented
Hygrophila abyssinica (Hochst. ex Nees) T.Anderson 15 documented
Hygrophila costata Nees 14 documented
Hygrophila erecta (Burm.f.) Hochr. 7 documented
Hygrophila balsamica (L.f.) Raf. 4 documented
Hygrophila difformis (L.f.) Blume 13 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila pinnatifida (Dalzell) Sreem. 1 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila pogonocalyx Hayata 1 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila acinos (S.Moore) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila acutangula Nees ex Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila africana (T.Anderson) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila albobracteata Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila anisocalyx Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila anomala (Blatt.) M.R.Almeida 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila asteracanthoides Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila barbata (Nees) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila baronii S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila bengalensis S.K.Mandal, A.Bhattacharjee & Nayek 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila biplicata (Nees) Sreem. 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila borellii (Lindau) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila brevituba (Burkill) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila caerulea (Hochst.) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila cataractae S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila chevalieri Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila ciliata (T.Anderson) Burkill 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila ciliibractea Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila didynama (Lindau) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila episcopalis (Benoist) Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila glandulifera Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila gossweileri (S.Moore) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila gracillima (Schinz) Burkill 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila griffithii (T.Anderson) Sreem. 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila guianensis Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila hippuroides Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila hirsuta Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila humistrata Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila incana Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila intermedia J.B.Imlay 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila laevis (Nees) Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila limnophiloides (S.Moore) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila linearis Burkill 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila madurensis (N.P.Balakr. & Subr.) Karthik. & Moorthy 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila mediatrix Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila meianthos C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila micrantha (Nees) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila modesta Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila mutica (C.B.Clarke) Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila niokoloensis Berhaut 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila odora (Nees) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila okavangensis P.G.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila origanoides (Lindau) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila palmensis Pires de Lima 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila paraibana Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila parishii (T.Anderson) Karthik. & Moorthy 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila perrieri Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila petiolata (Decne.) Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila phlomoides Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila pobeguinii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila pusilla Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila radicans (Nees) Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila richardsiae Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila sandwithii Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila senegalensis (Nees) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila spiciformis Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila stocksii T.Anderson ex C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila stricta (Vahl) Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila subsessilis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila surinamensis Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila thwaitesii (T.Anderson) Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila thymus (Nees) Sunojk. & M.G.Prasad 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila tyttha Leonard 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila uliginosa S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila urquiolae Greuter, R.Rankin & Palmarola 0 below the evidence gate
Hygrophila velata Benoist 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.