Microstegium

Accepted species 24 Documented here 4 Family Poaceae

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
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A.Camus 1,239 documented
Microstegium japonicum (Miq.) Koidz. 6 documented
Microstegium nudum (Trin.) A.Camus 6 documented
Microstegium geniculatum (Hayata) Honda 5 documented
Microstegium fasciculatum (L.) Henrard 6 below the evidence gate
Microstegium batangense (S.L.Zhong) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium biaristatum (Steud.) Keng 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium borianum Sur 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium brandisii (Hook.f.) D.Rhind 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium butuoense Y.C.Liu & H.Peng 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium delicatulum (Hook.f.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium dispar (Nees ex Steud.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium eucnemis (Nees ex Steud.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium falconeri (Hook.f.) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium fauriei (Hayata) Honda 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium glabratum (Brongn.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium lanceolatum (Keng) S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium monoracemum W.C.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium petiolare (Trin.) Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium rufispicum (Steud.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium spectabile (Trin.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium stapfii (Hook.f.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium steenisii Jansen 0 below the evidence gate
Microstegium tenue (Trin.) Hosok. 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.