Menodora

Accepted species 26 Documented here 12 Family Oleaceae

Accepted species 26 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
Menodora heterophylla Moric. ex DC. 188 documented
Menodora scabra Engelm. ex A.Gray 158 documented
Menodora spinescens A.Gray 153 documented
Menodora longiflora Engelm. ex A.Gray 63 documented
Menodora africana Hook. 28 documented
Menodora decemfida (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) A.Gray 18 documented
Menodora integrifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Steud. 17 documented
Menodora intricata Brandegee 6 documented
Menodora juncea Harv. 6 documented
Menodora coulteri A.Gray 4 documented
Menodora helianthemoides Bonpl. 4 documented
Menodora robusta (Benth.) A.Gray 4 documented
Menodora chlorargantha (Remy) Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora chumleyi B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora geohintonii B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora gypsophila B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora hintoniorum B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora jaliscana B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora linoides Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora magniflora (Steyerm.) B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora mexicana (A.DC.) A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora muellerae Rehder 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora potosiensis Henrickson ex B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora pulchella Markgr. 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora tehuacana B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Menodora yecorana T.Van Devender & B.L.Turner 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.