Papillaria

Accepted species 43 Documented here 5 Family Meteoriaceae

Accepted species 43 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
Papillaria africana (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger 38 documented
Papillaria crocea (Hampe) A.Jaeger 7 documented
Papillaria flavolimbata (Müll.Hal. & Hampe) A.Jaeger 7 documented
Papillaria nitens (Hook.f. & Wilson) Sainsbury 5 documented
Papillaria flexicaulis (Wilson) A.Jaeger 3 documented
Papillaria acinacifolia Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria araucarieti Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria bazzaccoi Tosco & Piovano 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria bipinnata Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria breviculifolia Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria brotheri Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria caldensis Ångstr. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria callochlorosa Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria capillicuspis Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria catharinae Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria catharinensis Paris 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria cordatifolia J.X.Luo 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria crenifolia Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria dilatata Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria flagellifera Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria flaviuscula Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria funiformis (Müll.Hal.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria guarapiensis Besch. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria hyalinotricha Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria laevifolia (Mitt.) Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria leptonema Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria leuconeura (Müll.Hal.) A.Jaeger 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria mosenii Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria perauriculata Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria pilifolia Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria pseudoappressa Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria ptychophylla Ångstr. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria socia Ångstr. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria subintegra (Lindb. ex Hampe) Kindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria subsemitorta Broth. ex Thér. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria tenella Herzog 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria tijucae Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria torquata (C.K.Wang & S.H.Lin) S.H.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria trachyblasta Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria viridata Müll.Hal. ex Broth. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria wagneri Lorentz 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria warszewiczii Müll.Hal. 0 below the evidence gate
Papillaria zeloflexicaulis Streimann 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.