Najas

Accepted species 41 Documented here 8 Family Hydrocharitaceae

Accepted species 41 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
Najas marina L. 78 documented
Najas guadalupensis (Spreng.) Magnus 35 documented
Najas minor All. 34 documented
Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & W.L.E.Schmidt 17 documented
Najas horrida A.Braun ex Magnus 17 documented
Najas wrightiana A.Braun 10 documented
Najas indica (Willd.) Cham. 6 documented
Najas browniana Rendle 3 documented
Najas gracillima (A.Braun ex Engelm.) Magnus 2 below the evidence gate
Najas major All. 1 below the evidence gate
Najas tenuifolia R.Br. 1 below the evidence gate
Najas affinis Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Najas ancistrocarpa A.Braun ex Magnus 0 below the evidence gate
Najas arguta Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Najas australis Bory ex Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Najas baldwinii Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Najas brevistyla Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Najas canadensis Michx. 0 below the evidence gate
Najas chinensis N.Z.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Najas conferta (A.Braun) A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Najas faveolata A.Br. ex Magnus 0 below the evidence gate
Najas filifolia R.R.Haynes 0 below the evidence gate
Najas graminea Delile 0 below the evidence gate
Najas grossareolata L.Triest 0 below the evidence gate
Najas hagerupii Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Najas halophila L.Triest 0 below the evidence gate
Najas heteromorpha Griff. ex Voigt 0 below the evidence gate
Najas kurziana Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Najas madagascariensis Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Najas malesiana W.J.de Wilde 0 below the evidence gate
Najas oguraensis Miki 0 below the evidence gate
Najas pectinata Magn. ex Ascherson & Schweinfurth 0 below the evidence gate
Najas pectinata (Parl.) Magnus 0 below the evidence gate
Najas pseudogracillima L.Triest 0 below the evidence gate
Najas rigida Griff. 0 below the evidence gate
Najas schweinfurthii Magnus 0 below the evidence gate
Najas tenuicaulis Miki 0 below the evidence gate
Najas tenuis Magnus 0 below the evidence gate
Najas tenuissima (A.Braun ex Magnus) Magnus 0 below the evidence gate
Najas testui Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Najas welwitschii Rendle 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.