Hypoestes

Accepted species 141 Documented here 11 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 141 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
Hypoestes forskaolii (Vahl) R.Br. 347 documented
Hypoestes phyllostachya Baker 230 documented
Hypoestes aristata (Vahl) Sol. ex Roem. & Schult. 156 documented
Hypoestes triflora (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult. 60 documented
Hypoestes purpurea (L.) Sol. ex Roem. & Schult. 24 documented
Hypoestes cumingiana (Nees) Fern.-Vill. 20 documented
Hypoestes pubescens Balf.f. 9 documented
Hypoestes lasioclada Nees 7 documented
Hypoestes brachiata Baker 3 documented
Hypoestes caudata Benoist 3 documented
Hypoestes multispicata Benoist 3 documented
Hypoestes isalensis Benoist 2 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes longituba Benoist 1 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes pulchra Nees 1 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes acuminata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes aldabrensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes andamanensis Thoth. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes angusta Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes angustilabiata Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes anisophylla Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes arachnopus Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes bakeri Vatke 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes betsiliensis S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes bojeriana Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes bosseri Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes calycina Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes cancellata Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes canescens Hedrén & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes capitata Boivin ex Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes carnosula Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes catatii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes celebica Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes cernua Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes chloroclada Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes chlorotricha (Bojer ex Nees) Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes cinerascens Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes cochlearia Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes comorensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes comosa Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes complanata Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes confertiflora Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes congestiflora Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes corymbosa Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes cruenta Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes decaisneana Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes decaryana Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes diclipteroides Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes discreta S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes ecbolioides I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes egena Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes elegans Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes elliotii S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes erythrostachya Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes fascicularis Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes fastuosa (L.) Sol. ex Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes flavescens Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes flavovirens Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes flexibilis Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes floribunda R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes forsskaolii (Vahl) R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes glandulifera Scott Elliot 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes glandulosa (S.Moore) Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes gracilis Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes halconensis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes hastata Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes hirsuta Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes humbertii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes humifusa Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes incompta Scott Elliot 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes inconspicua Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes involucrata Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes jasminoides Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes juanensis Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes kjellbergii Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes kuntzei C.B.Clarke ex Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes laeta Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes lanata Dalzell 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes larsenii Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes lasiostegia Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes leptostegia S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes longilabiata Scott Elliot 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes longispica Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes loniceroides Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes macilenta Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes maculosa Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes malaccensis Wight 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes mangokiensis Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes merrillii C.B.Clarke ex Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes mindorensis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes mollior C.B.Clarke ex S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes mollissima (Vahl) Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes nummulariifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes obtusifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes oppositiflora Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes oxystegia Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes palawanensis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes parvula Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes perrieri Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes poilanei Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes poissonii Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes polythyrsa Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes populifolia Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes potamophila Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes psilochlamys Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes pubiflora T.Anderson ex R.Baron 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes radicans Deflers 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes richardii Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes rodriguesiana Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes rosea Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes rosea P.Beauv. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes saboureaui Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes salajeriana Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes salensis Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes saxicola Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes scoparia Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes serpens (Vahl) Sol. ex Roem. & Schult. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes sessilifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes setigera Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes sparsiflora R.M.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes spicata Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes stachyoides Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes stenoptera Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes strobilifera S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes subcapitata C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes taeniata Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes tenuifolia Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes tenuis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes tetraptera Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes teucrioides Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes teysmanniana Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes thomsoniana Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes transversa Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes trichochlamys Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes tubiflora Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes unilateralis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes urophora Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes vagabunda Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes vidalii C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes viguieri Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes warpurioides Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Hypoestes zamboangensis Pelser 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.