Illicium

Accepted species 38 Documented here 6 Family Schisandraceae

Accepted species 38 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
Illicium floridanum J.Ellis 169 documented
Illicium anisatum L. 31 documented
Illicium arborescens Hayata 23 documented
Illicium parviflorum Michx. ex Vent. 13 documented
Illicium angustisepalum A.C.Sm. 7 documented
Illicium dunnianum Tutcher 6 documented
Illicium brevistylum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium burmanicum E.H.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium cubense A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium difengpi B.N.Chang 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium ekmanii A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium griffithii Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium guajaibonense (Imkhan.) Judd & J.R.Abbott 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium henryi Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium hottense A.Guerrero, Judd & A.B.Morris 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium jiadifengpi B.N.Chang 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium lanceolatum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium leiophyllum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium macranthum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium majus Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium merrillianum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium micranthum Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium modestum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium pachyphyllum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium parvifolium Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium petelotii A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium philippinense Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium ridleyanum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium simonsii Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium stapfii Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium sumatranum A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium tashiroi Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium tenuifolium (Ridl.) A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium ternstroemioides A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium tsaii A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium verum Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium viridiflorum Yahara, A.Nagah. & Tagane 0 below the evidence gate
Illicium wardii A.C.Sm. 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.