Leskea

Accepted species 25 Documented here 3 Family Leskeaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Leskea polycarpa Hedw. 73 documented
Leskea gracilescens Hedw. 17 documented
Leskea australis Sharp 4 documented
Leskea acuminata Broth. & Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea catenularia (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea consanguinea (Mont.) Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea delicatula Sw. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea filaria Broth. ex Ihsiba 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea filivaga (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea guineensis Paris & Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea hyloapiculata Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea integra P.Beauv. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea latifolia Lindb. ex Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea mauritiana Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea obscura Hedw. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea perstricta Dixon 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea plumaria Mitt. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea polenburgii Łobarz. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea riparia Hampe 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea scabrinervis Broth. & Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea schiedeana Hampe 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea subacuminata Nog. 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea subfiliramea Broth. & Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea sublaevifolia Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Leskea vaucheri Schimp. 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.