Phthirusa

Accepted species 23 Documented here 0 Family Loranthaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Phthirusa × angulata K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa angulata K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa clandestina Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa delicatula Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa elliptica Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa exilis Kuijt 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa guyanensis Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa hutchisonii (Kuijt) Kuijt 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa inorna (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) Kuijt 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa janeirensis Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa lobaterae G.Ferrari 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa macrophylla (Kuijt) Kuijt 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa monetaria Sandwith 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa murcae Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa nitens Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa pedicularis Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa phaeoclados Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa rhynchophylla (Kuijt) Kuijt 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa schneeana G.Ferrari 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa stenophylla Eichler 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa steyermarkiana Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa subcorymbosa Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Phthirusa verruculosa Rizzini 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.