Panax

Accepted species 24 Documented here 4 Family Araliaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Panax trifolius L. 986 documented
Panax quinquefolius L. 183 documented
Panax pseudoginseng Wall. 7 documented
Panax ginseng C.A.Mey. 5 documented
Panax japonicus (T.Nees) C.A.Mey. 1 below the evidence gate
Panax aesculifolia Griff. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax arunachalensis Taram, A.P.Das & Tag 0 below the evidence gate
Panax assamicus R.N.Banerjee 0 below the evidence gate
Panax bipinnatifidus Seem. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax compactus Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax excelsa B.S.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Panax fallax Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax hermannii Cordem. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax lepidus W.Bull 0 below the evidence gate
Panax margaritifer Vis. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax mastersianus Sander ex Mast. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax nitidus W.Bull 0 below the evidence gate
Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Panax siamensis J.Wen 0 below the evidence gate
Panax sokpayensis Shiva K.Sharma & Pandit 0 below the evidence gate
Panax stipuleanatus H.T.Tsai & K.M.Feng 0 below the evidence gate
Panax vietnamensis Ha & Grushv. 0 below the evidence gate
Panax wangianus S.C.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Panax zingiberensis C.Y.Wu & Feng 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.