Oplonia

Accepted species 21 Documented here 1 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 21 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
Oplonia spinosa (Jacq.) Raf. 28 documented
Oplonia polyece (Stearn) Borhidi 1 below the evidence gate
Oplonia acicularis (Sw.) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia acuminata Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia acunae Borhidi 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia armata (Sw.) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia cubensis Borhidi 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia grandiflora (Lindau) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia hutchisonii Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia jamaicensis (Lindau) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia jujuyensis Wassh. & C.Ezcurra 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia linifolia (Benoist) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia microphylla (Lam.) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia minor (Benoist) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia moana Borhidi 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia multigemma Borhidi 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia nannophylla (Urb.) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia puberula Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia purpurascens (Griseb.) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia tetrasticha (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Oplonia vincoides (Lam.) Stearn 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.