Melanoseris

Accepted species 36 Documented here 0 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 36 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
Melanoseris aitchisoniana (Beauverd) Ghafoor, Qaiser & Roohi Bano 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris alii (Roohi Bano & Qaiser) N.Kilian & Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris astorensis (Roohi Bano & Qaiser) Ghafoor, Qaiser & Roohi Bano 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris atropurpurea (Franch.) N.Kilian & Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris bonatii (Beauverd) Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris bracteata (Hook.f. & Thomson ex C.B.Clarke) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris brunoniana (Wall. ex DC.) N.Kilian & Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris ciliata (C.Shih) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris cyanea (D.Don) Edgew. 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris decipiens (C.B.Clarke) N.Kilian & Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris dolichophylla (C.Shih) Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris filicina (Duthie ex Stebbins) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris gilgitensis (Roohi Bano & Qaiser) Ghafoor, Qaiser & Roohi Bano 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris graciliflora (DC.) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris henryi (Dunn) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris jilongensis Ze H.Wang & H.Peng 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris kangdingensis Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris kashmiriana (Mamgain & R.R.Rao) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris lahulensis (Mamgain & R.R.Rao) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris leiolepis (C.Shih) N.Kilian & J.W.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris lessertiana (DC.) Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris likiangensis (Franch.) N.Kilian & Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris macrantha (C.B.Clarke) N.Kilian & J.W.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris macrocephala (C.Shih) N.Kilian & J.W.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris macrorhiza (Royle) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris monocephala (C.C.Chang) Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris pectiniformis (C.Shih) N.Kilian & J.W.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris penghuana Ze H.Wang & H.J.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris polyclada (Boiss.) Akhani, N.Kilian & Sennikov 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris qinghaica (S.W.Liu & T.N.Ho) N.Kilian & Ze H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris rapunculoides (DC.) Edgew. 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris souliei (Franch.) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris stewartii (Roohi Bano & Qaiser) Ghafoor, Qaiser & Roohi Bano 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris tenuis (C.Shih) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris violifolia (Decne.) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Melanoseris yunnanensis (C.Shih) N.Kilian & Ze H.Wang 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.