Maireana

Accepted species 57 Documented here 19 Family Chenopodiaceae

Accepted species 57 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
Maireana brevifolia (R.Br.) Paul G.Wilson 70 documented
Maireana erioclada (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson 39 documented
Maireana sedifolia (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 29 documented
Maireana oppositifolia (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 26 documented
Maireana appressa (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson 19 documented
Maireana pentatropis (Tate) Paul G.Wilson 18 documented
Maireana trichoptera (J.M.Black) Paul G.Wilson 17 documented
Maireana pyramidata (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson 16 documented
Maireana georgei (Diels) Paul G.Wilson 13 documented
Maireana radiata (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson 12 documented
Maireana turbinata Paul G.Wilson 12 documented
Maireana aphylla (R.Br.) Paul G.Wilson 10 documented
Maireana decalvans (Gand.) Paul G.Wilson 7 documented
Maireana triptera (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson 6 documented
Maireana coronata (J.M.Black) Paul G.Wilson 5 documented
Maireana spongiocarpa (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 5 documented
Maireana astrotricha (L.A.S.Johnson) Paul G.Wilson 4 documented
Maireana enchylaenoides (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 3 documented
Maireana microphylla (Moq.) Paul G.Wilson 3 documented
Maireana excavata (J.M.Black) Paul G.Wilson 2 below the evidence gate
Maireana lobiflora (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Paul G.Wilson 2 below the evidence gate
Maireana melanocarpa Paul G.Wilson 2 below the evidence gate
Maireana rohrlachii (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson 2 below the evidence gate
Maireana campanulata Paul G.Wilson 1 below the evidence gate
Maireana villosa (Lindl.) Paul G.Wilson 1 below the evidence gate
Maireana amoena (Diels) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana atkinsiana (W.Fitzg.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana cannonii (J.M.Black) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana carnosa (Moq.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana cheelii (R.H.Anderson) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana ciliata (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana convexa Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana dichoptera (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana diffusa Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana eriantha (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana eriosphaera Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana glomerifolia (F.Muell. & Tate) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana humillima (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana integra (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana lanosa (Lindl.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana luehmannii (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana marginata (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana melanocoma (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana microcarpa (Benth.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana murrayana (Ewart & B.Rees) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana ovata (Ising) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana pentagona (R.H.Anderson) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana planifolia (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana platycarpa Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana polypterygia (Diels) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana prosthecochaeta (F.Muell.) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana schistocarpa Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana scleroptera (J.M.Black) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana stipitata Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana suaedifolia (Paul G.Wilson) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana thesioides (C.A.Gardner) Paul G.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Maireana tomentosa Moq. 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.