Pachystachys

Accepted species 18 Documented here 4 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 18 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
Pachystachys lutea Nees 85 documented
Pachystachys spicata (Ruiz & Pav.) Wassh. 18 documented
Pachystachys coccinea (Aubl.) Nees 8 documented
Pachystachys dubiosa (Lindau) A.L.A.Côrtes 8 documented
Pachystachys azaleiflora (Rusby) A.L.A.Côrtes 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys badiospica Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys cordata (Nees) A.L.A.Côrtes 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys fosteri Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys gracilis A.L.A.Côrtes 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys incarnata Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys killipii Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys linearibracteata A.L.A.Côrtes 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys longibracteata Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys ossolae Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys puberula Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys rosea Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys schunkei Wassh. 0 below the evidence gate
Pachystachys velutina (W.Bull) A.L.A.Côrtes 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.