Pachypodium

Accepted species 25 Documented here 11 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Pachypodium namaquanum (Wyley ex Harv.) Welw. 118 documented
Pachypodium succulentum (L.f.) Sweet 81 documented
Pachypodium saundersii N.E.Br. 37 documented
Pachypodium bispinosum (L.f.) A.DC. 28 documented
Pachypodium rosulatum Baker 23 documented
Pachypodium geayi Costantin & Bois 11 documented
Pachypodium brevicaule Baker 8 documented
Pachypodium lamerei Drake 6 documented
Pachypodium densiflorum Baker 5 documented
Pachypodium rutenbergianum Vatke 4 documented
Pachypodium mikea Lüthy 3 documented
Pachypodium lealii Welw. 2 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium decaryi Poiss. 1 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium × hojnyi Halda 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium × rauhii Halda 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium ambongense Poiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium baronii Costantin & Bois 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium eburneum Lavranos & Rapan. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium enigmaticum Pavelka, Prokes, V.Vlk, Lavranos, Žídek & Ramav. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium horombense Poiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium inopinatum Lavranos 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium menabeum Leandri 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium sofiense (Poiss.) H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium stenanthum (Costantin & Bois) J.-B.Castillon, J.-P.Castillon & Rapan. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachypodium windsorii Poiss. 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.