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.
| Species | Authority | Usable photographs | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melanthera nivea | (L.) Small | 394 | documented |
| Melanthera integrifolia | (Nutt.) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 20 | documented |
| Melanthera angustifolia | Gilli | 17 | documented |
| Melanthera angustifolia | A.Rich. | 17 | documented |
| Melanthera parvifolia | Small | 12 | documented |
| Melanthera latifolia | (Gardner) Cabrera | 8 | documented |
| Melanthera scandens | (Schumach. & Thonn.) Roberty | 1 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera abyssinica | (Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Vatke | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera bryanii | (Sherff) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera buchii | Urb. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera cinerea | Schweinf. ex Schweinf. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera discoidea | S.F.Blake | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera elliptica | O.Hoffm. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera fauriei | (H.Lév.) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera felicis | C.D.Adams | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera gambica | Hutch. & Dalziel | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera hastata | (Walt.) Rich. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera kamolensis | (O.Deg. & Sherff) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera micrantha | (Nutt.) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera prostrata | (Hemsl.) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera pungens | Oliv. & Hiern | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera remyi | (A.Gray) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera rhombifolia | O.Hoffm. & Muschl. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera richardsiae | Wild | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera robinsonii | Wild | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera scaberrima | Hiern | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera subcordata | (A.Gray) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera tenuis | (O.Deg. & Sherff) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera triternata | (Klatt) Wild | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera venosa | (Sherff) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Melanthera waimeaensis | (H.St.John) W.L.Wagner & H.Rob. | 0 | below the evidence 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.