Leucaena

Accepted species 26 Documented here 12 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 26 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
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit 2,014 documented
Leucaena retusa Benth. 76 documented
Leucaena diversifolia (Schltdl.) Benth. 46 documented
Leucaena pulverulenta (Schltdl.) Benth. 32 documented
Leucaena esculenta (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) Benth. 27 documented
Leucaena collinsii Britton & Rose 18 documented
Leucaena cuspidata Standl. 9 documented
Leucaena trichodes (Jacq.) Benth. 9 documented
Leucaena greggii S.Watson 8 documented
Leucaena lanceolata S.Watson 6 documented
Leucaena lempirana C.E.Hughes 3 documented
Leucaena macrophylla Benth. 3 documented
Leucaena shannonii Donn.Sm. 2 below the evidence gate
Leucaena × mixtec C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena × spontanea C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena confertiflora Zárate 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena cruziana Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena involucrata Zárate 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena magnifica (C.E.Hughes) C.E.Hughes 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena matudae (Zárate) C.E.Hughes 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena multicapitula Schery 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena pallida Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena pueblana Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena salvadorensis Standl. ex Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena trichandra (Zucc.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Leucaena zacapana (C.E.Hughes) R.Govind. & C.E.Hughes 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.