Pachira

Accepted species 52 Documented here 5 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 52 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
Pachira aquatica Aubl. 89 documented
Pachira speciosa Triana & Planch. 11 documented
Pachira insignis (Sw.) Savigny 10 documented
Pachira glabra Pasq. 8 documented
Pachira sessilis Benth. 3 documented
Pachira amazonica (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira aracamuniana (Steyerm.) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira brevipes (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira calophylla (K.Schum.) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira cearensis (Ducke) Carv.-Sobr. & Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira condorensis Fern.Alonso & J.E.Guevara 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira coriacea (Mart.) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira cowanii (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira cubensis (A.Robyns) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira dolichocalyx A.Robyns 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira duckei (A.Robyns) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira dugandeana (A.Robyns) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira emarginata A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira endecaphylla (Vell.) Carv.-Sobr. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira faroensis (Ducke) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira flaviflora (Pulle) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira fuscolepidota (Steyerm.) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira gracilis (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira humilis Spruce ex Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira liesneri (Steyerm.) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira macrocalyx (Ducke) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira manausensis (A.Robyns) V.N.Yoshik. & C.D.M.Ferreira 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira mawarinumae (Steyerm.) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira minor (Sims) Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira morae Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira moreirae Carv.-Sobr. & W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira mutisiana Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira nervosa (Uittien) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira nitida Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira nukakica Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira obovata (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira orinocensis (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira paraensis (Ducke) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira patinoi (Dugand & A.Robyns) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira pseudofaroensis (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira pulchra Planch. & Linden 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira punga-schunkei Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira retusa (Mart. & Zucc.) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira robynsii (Steyerm. & W.D.Stevens) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira rupicola (A.Robyns) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira rurrenabaqueana (Rusby) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira sordida (R.E.Schult.) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira subandina (Dugand) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira tepuiensis (Steyerm.) W.S.Alverson 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira tocantina (Ducke) Fern.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira trinitensis Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachira yapacanae Steyerm. ex W.S.Alverson 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.