Phemeranthus

Accepted species 25 Documented here 11 Family Montiaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Phemeranthus teretifolius (Pursh) Raf. 151 documented
Phemeranthus parviflorus (Nutt.) Kiger 143 documented
Phemeranthus rugospermus (Holz.) Kiger 34 documented
Phemeranthus mengesii (W.Wolf) Kiger 26 documented
Phemeranthus napiformis (DC.) Ocampo 17 documented
Phemeranthus calycinus (Engelm.) Kiger 15 documented
Phemeranthus brevicaulis (S.Watson) Kiger 11 documented
Phemeranthus calcaricus (S.Ware) Kiger 10 documented
Phemeranthus oligospermus (Brandegee) Ocampo 7 documented
Phemeranthus palmeri (Rose & Standl.) D.J.Ferguson 6 documented
Phemeranthus parvulus (Rose & Standl.) D.J.Ferguson & T.M.Price 3 documented
Phemeranthus brevifolius (Torr.) Hershk. 1 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus humilis (Greene) Kiger 1 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus piedmontanus Ware 1 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus sediformis (Poelln.) Kiger 1 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus brachypodius (S.Watson) D.J.Ferguson 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus greenmanii (Harshb.) D.J.Ferguson 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus longipes (Wooton & Standl.) Kiger 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus mexicanus (Hemsl.) Ocampo 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus multiflorus (Rose & Standl.) Ocampo 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus punae (R.E.Fr.) Eggli & Nyffeler 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus rhizomatus D.J.Ferguson 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus spinescens (Torr.) Hershk. 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus thompsonii (N.D.Atwood & S.L.Welsh) Kiger 0 below the evidence gate
Phemeranthus validulus (Greene) Kiger 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.