Miscanthus

Accepted species 17 Documented here 6 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 17 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
Miscanthus sinensis Andersson 627 documented
Miscanthus nepalensis (Trin.) Hack. 55 documented
Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Franch. 38 documented
Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Hack. 38 documented
Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex K.Schum. & Lauterb. 31 documented
Miscanthus ecklonii (Nees) Mabb. 17 documented
Miscanthus depauperatus Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus erectus Gibbs.-Russ. 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus fuscus (Roxb.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus longiberbis (Hack.) Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus lutarioriparius L.Liu ex S.L.Chen & Renvoize 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus nudipes (Griseb.) Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus oligostachyus Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus paniculatus (B.S.Sun) S.L.Chen & Renvoize 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus tinctorius (Steud.) Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus villosus Y.C.Liu & H.Peng 0 below the evidence gate
Miscanthus wangpicheonensis T.I.Heo & J.S.Kim 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.