Melampyrum

Accepted species 43 Documented here 16 Family Orobanchaceae

Accepted species 43 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
Melampyrum pratense L. 1,433 documented
Melampyrum nemorosum L. 869 documented
Melampyrum lineare Desr. 662 documented
Melampyrum arvense L. 458 documented
Melampyrum sylvaticum L. 179 documented
Melampyrum cristatum L. 110 documented
Melampyrum roseum Maxim. 37 documented
Melampyrum subalpinum (Jur.) A.Kern. 37 documented
Melampyrum vaudense (Ronniger) Soó 33 documented
Melampyrum barbatum Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd. 32 documented
Melampyrum setaceum (Maxim. ex Palib.) Nakai 16 documented
Melampyrum laxum Miq. 14 documented
Melampyrum fimbriatum Vandas 9 documented
Melampyrum bihariense A.Kern. 4 documented
Melampyrum italicum (Beauverd) Soó 3 documented
Melampyrum saxosum Baumg. 3 documented
Melampyrum chlorostachyum (Hohen.) Beauverd 1 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum velebiticum Borbás 1 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum velebiticum Borbás ex Hand.-Mazz. 1 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum alboffanum Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum alboffianum Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum aphraditis S.B.Zhou & X.H.Guo 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum burnatii Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum caucasicum Bunge 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum chinense Dahl ex Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum ciliatum Boiss. & Heldr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum doerfleri Ronniger 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum dolosum Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum elatius Reut. ex Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum heracleoticum Boiss. & Orph. 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum hoermannianum K.Malý 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum indicum Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum knetschii Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum koreanum K.J.Kim & S.M.Yun 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum macranthum Murata 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum mulkijanianii T.N.Popova 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum polonicum (Beauverd) Soó 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum scardicum Wettst. 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum stenophyllum Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum trichocalicinum Vandas 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum variegatum (Porta & Rigo) Huter 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum viviscense Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Melampyrum yezoense T.Yamaz. 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.