Lecythis

Accepted species 33 Documented here 3 Family Lecythidaceae

Accepted species 33 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
Lecythis ampla Miers 13 documented
Lecythis pisonis Cambess. 13 documented
Lecythis minor Jacq. 9 documented
Lecythis mesophylla S.A.Mori 2 below the evidence gate
Lecythis brancoensis (R.Knuth) S.A.Mori 1 below the evidence gate
Lecythis alutacea (A.C.Sm.) S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis barnebyi S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis chartacea O.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis confertiflora (A.C.Sm.) S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis congestiflora Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis corrugata Poit. 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis gracieana S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis holcogyne (Sandwith) S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis ibiriba (Miers) N.P.Sm., S.A.Mori & Popovkin 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis idatimon Aubl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis lanceolata Poir. 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis lurida (Miers) S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis marcgraaviana Miers 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis oldemanii Roosmalen 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis ollaria L. 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis parvifructa S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis persistens Sagot 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis pneumatophora S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis poiteaui O.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis praeclara (Sandwith) S.A.Mori ex Molino & Sabatier 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis prancei S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis retusa Spruce ex O.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis schomburgkii O.Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis schwackei (R.Knuth) S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis serrata S.A.Mori 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis simiorum Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis tuyrana Pittier 0 below the evidence gate
Lecythis zabucajo Aubl. 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.