Mesosetum

Accepted species 28 Documented here 0 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 28 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
Mesosetum agropyroides Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum alatum Filg. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum annuum Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum ansatum (Trin.) Kuhlm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum arenarium Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum bifarium (Hack.) Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum blakei Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum canastrense R.C.Oliveira & M.W.S.Sousa 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum cayennense Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum chaseae Luces 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum chlorostachyum (Döll) Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum comatum Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum compressum Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum elytrochaetum (Hack.) Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum exaratum (Trin.) Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum ferrugineum (Trin.) Chase 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum filgueirasii R.C.Oliveira & Valls 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum filifolium F.T.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum gibbosum Renvoize & Filg. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum loliiforme (Hochst. ex Steud.) Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum longiaristatum Filg. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum pappophorum (Nees) Kuhlm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum penicillatum Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum pittieri Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum rottboellioides (Kunth) Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum sclerochloa (Trin.) Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum stoloniferum Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosetum wrightii Hitchc. 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.