Macroptilium

Accepted species 23 Documented here 8 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Macroptilium atropurpureum (DC.) Urb. 764 documented
Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb. 504 documented
Macroptilium gibbosifolium (Ortega) A.Delgado 180 documented
Macroptilium bracteatum (Nees & Mart.) Maréchal & Baudet 16 documented
Macroptilium prostratum (Benth.) Urb. 9 documented
Macroptilium gracile (Poepp. ex Benth.) Urb. 6 documented
Macroptilium arenarium (Bacig.) S.I.Drewes & R.A.Palacios 4 documented
Macroptilium erythroloma (Mart. ex Benth.) Urb. 4 documented
Macroptilium panduratum (Mart. ex Benth.) Maréchal & Baudet 2 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium albidum C.L.Ribeiro, Snak & L.P.Queiroz 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium campestre (Mart. ex Benth.) Berlingeri, M.B.Crespo & Calles 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium chacoensis (Hassl.) S.I.Drewes & R.A.Palacios 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium cochleatum A.Delgado & G.P.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium ecuadoriense (Hassl.) L.Torres & A.Delgado 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium fraternum (Piper) Juárez 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium longepedunculatum (Mart. ex Benth.) Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium martii (Benth.) Maréchal & Baudet 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium monophyllum (Benth.) Maréchal & Baudet 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium pedatum (Rose) Maréchal & Baudet 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium psammodes (Lindm.) S.I.Drewes & R.A.Palacios 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium rubidum (Piper) C.L.Ribeiro 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium sabaraense (Hoehne) V.P.Barbosa 0 below the evidence gate
Macroptilium supinum (Wiggins & Rollins) A.Delgado & L.Torres 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.