Merostachys

Accepted species 56 Documented here 1 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 56 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
Merostachys claussenii Munro 4 documented
Merostachys abadiana Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys annulifera Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys argentea Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys argyronema Lindm. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys bifurcata Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys brevigluma Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys brevispica Munro 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys burmanii Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys calderoniana Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys caucaiana Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys ciliata McClure & L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys delicatula R.S.Andrade, Pianiss., Vinic.-Silva & R.P.Oliveira 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys espessae Vinic.-Silva, L.G.Clark & Santos-Gonç. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys exserta Munro 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys filgueirasii Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys fimbriata Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys fimbriolaminata Vinic.-Silva, Cupert.-Eisenl. & Santos-Gonç. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys fischeriana Rupr. ex Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys fistulosa Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys glauca McClure & L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys judziewiczii Vinic.-Silva, L.G.Clark & Santos-Gonç. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys kleinii Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys kunthii Rupr. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys lagevianae Vinic.-Silva, L.G.Clark & Santos-Gonç. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys lanata Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys latifolia R.W.Pohl 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys leptophylla Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys magellanica Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys magnispicula Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys maguireorum McClure 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys medullosa Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys mexicana Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys multiramea Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys neesii Rupr. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys pauciflora Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys petiolata Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys pilifera Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys pluriflora Munro ex E.G.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys polyantha McClure 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys procerrima Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys ramosa Pianiss., Vinic.-Silva & L.G.Clark 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys ramosissima Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys retrorsa McClure 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys riedeliana Rupr. ex Döll 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys rondoniensis Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys scandens Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys sellovii Munro 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys skvortzovii Send. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys sparsiflora Rupr. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys speciosa Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys tatianae Santos-Gonç., Carv.-Okano & Filg. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys ternata Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys vestita McClure & L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys ximenae Pianiss., Vinic.-Silva & L.G.Clark 0 below the evidence gate
Merostachys yungasensis Lizarazu 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.