Mesosphaerum

Accepted species 24 Documented here 7 Family Lamiaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Mesosphaerum suaveolens (L.) Kuntze 291 documented
Mesosphaerum urticodes (Kunth) Kuntze 50 documented
Mesosphaerum pectinatum (L.) Kuntze 29 documented
Mesosphaerum perbullatum (Fern.Alonso) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 27 documented
Mesosphaerum oblongifolium (Benth.) Kuntze 14 documented
Mesosphaerum sidifolium (L'Hér.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 5 documented
Mesosphaerum collinum (Brandegee) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 3 documented
Mesosphaerum argutifolium (Epling) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum asperifolium (Standl.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum caatingense Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum chacapoyense (Briq.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum diffusum (Epling) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum diversifolium (Benth.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum eriocephalum (Benth.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum gymnocaulon (Epling) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum irwinii (Harley) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum lachnosphaerium (Epling) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum marrubiifolium (Epling & Mathias) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum melissoides (Kunth) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum obtusatum (Benth.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum pilosum (Benth.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum pseudoglaucum (Epling) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum purdiei (Benth.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Mesosphaerum septentrionale (Epling) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore 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.