Myrica

Accepted species 51 Documented here 21 Family Myricaceae

Accepted species 51 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
Myrica cerifera L. 1,731 documented
Myrica gale L. 1,084 documented
Myrica pensylvanica Mirb. 879 documented
Myrica californica Cham. 357 documented
Myrica faya Aiton 330 documented
Myrica quercifolia L. 323 documented
Myrica caroliniensis Mill. 191 documented
Myrica cordifolia L. 182 documented
Myrica serrata Lam. 173 documented
Myrica humilis Cham. 143 documented
Myrica rubra (Lour.) Siebold & Zucc. 108 documented
Myrica kraussiana Buchinger 74 documented
Myrica parvifolia Benth. 72 documented
Myrica inodora W.Bartram 66 documented
Myrica pubescens Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. 44 documented
Myrica esculenta Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don 22 documented
Myrica pilulifera Rendle 19 documented
Myrica brevifolia E.Mey. ex C.DC. 14 documented
Myrica picardae Krug & Urb. 13 documented
Myrica integra (A.Chev.) Killick 8 documented
Myrica hartwegii S.Watson 4 documented
Myrica adenophora Hance 2 below the evidence gate
Myrica funckii A.Chev. 1 below the evidence gate
Myrica lindeniana C.DC. 1 below the evidence gate
Myrica arborea Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica cacuminis Britton & P.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica chevalieri (Parra-Os.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica chimanimaniana (Verdc. & Polhill) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica dentulata Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica diversifolia Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica faya [Dryand.] 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica goetzei Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica holdrigeana Lundell 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica integrifolia Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica interrupta Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica javanica Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica kandtiana Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica kilimandscharica Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica meyeri-johannis Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica microbracteata Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica mildbraedii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica nana A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica pavonis C.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica phanerodonta Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica pringlei Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica punctata Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica rotundata Steyerm. & Maguire 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica salicifolia Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica shaferi Urb. & Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica singularis Parra-Os. 0 below the evidence gate
Myrica spathulata Mirb. 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.