Penaea

Accepted species 27 Documented here 16 Family Penaeaceae

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
Penaea mucronata L. 794 documented
Penaea sarcocolla L. 658 documented
Penaea acutifolia A.Juss. 211 documented
Penaea acuta Thunb. 124 documented
Penaea cneorum Meerb. 110 documented
Penaea petraea (W.F.Barker) Byng & Christenh. 103 documented
Penaea fucata L. 89 documented
Penaea fruticulosa L.f. 44 documented
Penaea retzioides (Sond.) Byng & Christenh. 17 documented
Penaea lateriflora L.f. 16 documented
Penaea speciosa (Sond.) Byng & Christenh. 15 documented
Penaea micrantha (R.Dahlgren) Byng & Christenh. 13 documented
Penaea dubia Stephens 10 documented
Penaea rupestris (Sond.) Byng & Christenh. 7 documented
Penaea mundii (Sond.) Byng & Christenh. 4 documented
Penaea sulcata (R.Dahlgren) Byng & Christenh. 4 documented
Penaea ericifolia (A.Juss.) Gilg 1 below the evidence gate
Penaea candolleana Stephens 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea dahlgrenii Rourke 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea ericoides (A.Juss.) Endl. 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea formosa Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea geneiophora Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea gigantea (R.Dahlgren) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea lanceolata (R.Dahlgren) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea microphylla (Rourke) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea ovata Eckl. & Zeyh. ex A.DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Penaea ruscifolia (R.Dahlgren) Byng & Christenh. 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.