Opercularia

Accepted species 17 Documented here 8 Family Rubiaceae

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
Opercularia diphylla Gaertn. 147 documented
Opercularia aspera Gaertn. 41 documented
Opercularia varia Hook.f. 26 documented
Opercularia hispida Spreng. 25 documented
Opercularia turpis F.Muell. 16 documented
Opercularia ovata Hook.f. 11 documented
Opercularia scabrida Schltdl. 11 documented
Opercularia vaginata Juss. 11 documented
Opercularia echinocephala Benth. 2 below the evidence gate
Opercularia nubicola A.S.Markey 2 below the evidence gate
Opercularia volubilis R.Br. ex Benth. 2 below the evidence gate
Opercularia hispidula Endl. 1 below the evidence gate
Opercularia acolytantha Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Opercularia apiciflora Labill. ex Juss. 0 below the evidence gate
Opercularia hirsuta F.Muell. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Opercularia loganioides Keighery 0 below the evidence gate
Opercularia spermacocea Juss. 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.