Metrosideros

Accepted species 60 Documented here 20 Family Myrtaceae

Accepted species 60 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
Metrosideros perforata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) A.Rich. 906 documented
Metrosideros fulgens Sol. ex Gaertn. 847 documented
Metrosideros diffusa (G.Forst.) Sm. 751 documented
Metrosideros excelsa Sol. ex Gaertn. 750 documented
Metrosideros umbellata Cav. 701 documented
Metrosideros polymorpha Gaudich. 537 documented
Metrosideros robusta A.Cunn. 528 documented
Metrosideros angustifolia (L.) Sm. 379 documented
Metrosideros colensoi Hook.f. 270 documented
Metrosideros carminea W.R.B.Oliv. 70 documented
Metrosideros albiflora Sol. ex Gaertn. 45 documented
Metrosideros stipularis (Hook. & Arn.) Hook.f. 44 documented
Metrosideros parkinsonii Buchanan 31 documented
Metrosideros rugosa A.Gray 30 documented
Metrosideros collina (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) A.Gray 23 documented
Metrosideros tremuloides (A.Heller) Rock 20 documented
Metrosideros nervulosa C.Moore & F.Muell. 11 documented
Metrosideros macropus Hook. & Arn. 10 documented
Metrosideros bartlettii J.W.Dawson 5 documented
Metrosideros waialealae (Rock) Rock 4 documented
Metrosideros kermadecensis W.R.B.Oliv. 2 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros punctata J.W.Dawson 2 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros operculata Labill. 1 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros × sub-tomentosa Carse 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros arfakensis Gibbs 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros boninensis (Hayata ex Koidz.) Tuyama 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros brevistylis J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros cacuminum J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros cherrieri J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros cordata (C.T.White & W.D.Francis) J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros dolichandra Schltr. ex Guillaumin 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros elegans (Montrouz.) Beauvis. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros engleriana Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros gregoryi Christoph. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros halconensis (Merr.) J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros humboldtianus Guillaumin 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros laurifolia Brongn. & Gris 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros longipetiolata J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros microphylla (Schltr.) J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros nitida Brongn. & Gris 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros ochranthus A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros oreomyrtus Däniker 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros ovata (C.T.White) J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros paniensis J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros parallelinervis C.T.White 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros patens J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros porphyrea Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros ramiflora Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros regelii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros rotundifolia J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros salomonensis C.T.White 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros scariosa J.C.Wendl. ex Hornem. 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros sclerocarpa J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros tabwemasanaensis Pillon 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros tardiflora (J.W.Dawson) Pillon 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros tetragyna J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros tetrasticha Guillaumin 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros vitiensis (A.Gray) Pillon 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros whitakeri J.W.Dawson 0 below the evidence gate
Metrosideros whiteana J.W.Dawson 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.