Otopappus

Accepted species 17 Documented here 2 Family Asteraceae

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
Otopappus guatemalensis (Urb.) R.L.Hartm. & Stuessy 6 documented
Otopappus acuminatus S.Watson 4 documented
Otopappus epaleaceus Hemsl. 2 below the evidence gate
Otopappus scaber S.F.Blake 2 below the evidence gate
Otopappus tequilanus (A.Gray) B.L.Rob. 2 below the evidence gate
Otopappus brevipes B.L.Rob. 1 below the evidence gate
Otopappus calarcanus S.Díaz 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus curviflorus (R.Br.) Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus glabratus (J.M.Coult.) S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus hirsutus (Sw.) R.L.Hartm. & Stuessy 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus imbricatus S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus koelzii McVaugh 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus mexicanus (Rzed.) H.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus microcephalus S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus robustus Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus syncephalus Donn.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Otopappus verbesinoides Benth. 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.