Paris

Accepted species 27 Documented here 8 Family Melanthiaceae

Accepted species 27 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
Paris quadrifolia L. 1,506 documented
Paris polyphylla Sm. 77 documented
Paris verticillata M.Bieb. 53 documented
Paris incompleta M.Bieb. 25 documented
Paris fargesii Franch. 16 documented
Paris lancifolia Hayata 7 documented
Paris tetraphylla A.Gray 7 documented
Paris japonica (Franch. & Sav.) Franch. 6 documented
Paris bashanensis F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Paris caobangensis Y.H.Ji, H.Li & Z.K.Zhou 0 below the evidence gate
Paris chinensis Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Paris cronquistii (Takht.) H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Paris delavayi Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Paris dunniana H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Paris forrestii (Takht.) H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Paris liana Y.H.Ji 0 below the evidence gate
Paris luquanensis H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Paris mairei H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Paris marmorata Stearn 0 below the evidence gate
Paris qiliangiana H.Li, Jun Yang bis & Y.H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Paris taiwanensis S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Paris thibetica Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Paris vaniotii H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Paris vietnamensis (Takht.) H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Paris xichouensis (H.Li) Y.H.Ji, H.Li & Z.K.Zhou 0 below the evidence gate
Paris yanchii H.Li, L.G.Lei & Y.M.Yang 0 below the evidence gate
Paris yunnanensis Franch. 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.