Macairea

Accepted species 24 Documented here 0 Family Melastomataceae

Accepted species 24 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
Macairea lasiophylla (Benth.) Wurdack 2 below the evidence gate
Macairea axilliflora Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea cardonae Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea chimantensis Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea cuieirasii S.S.Renner 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea duidae Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea lanata Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea linearis Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea maroana Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea multinervia Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea neblinae Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea pachyphylla Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea parviflora Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea parvifolia Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea philipsonii S.S.Renner 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea radula DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea rigida Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea rotundifolia Cogn. & Hoehne 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea rufescens DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea spruceana O.Berg ex Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea stylosa Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea sulcata Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea theresiae Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Macairea thyrsiflora DC. 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.