Pfaffia

Accepted species 28 Documented here 4 Family Amaranthaceae

Accepted species 28 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
Pfaffia glomerata (Spreng.) Pedersen 26 documented
Pfaffia tuberosa (Spreng.) Hicken 17 documented
Pfaffia gnaphalioides (L.f.) Mart. 16 documented
Pfaffia iresinoides Spreng. 3 documented
Pfaffia acutifolia (Moq.) O.Stützer 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia aphylla Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia argyrea Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia aurata (Mart.) Borsch 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia cipoana Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia completa (Uline & W.L.Bray) Borsch 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia costaricensis (Standl.) Borsch 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia densipellita Borsch 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia denudata (Moq.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia elata R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia fruticulosa Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia glabrata Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia gleasonii Suess. 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia hirtula Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia jubata Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia minarum Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia rotundifolia Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia rupestris Marchior., Miotto & J.C.Siqueira 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia sarcophylla Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia sericantha (Mart.) Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia siqueiriana Marchior. & Miotto 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia townsendii Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia tuberculosa Pedersen 0 below the evidence gate
Pfaffia velutina Mart. 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.