Plocama

Accepted species 36 Documented here 5 Family Rubiaceae

Accepted species 36 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
Plocama calabrica (L.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin 53 documented
Plocama pendula Aiton 43 documented
Plocama crocyllis (Sond.) M.Backlund & Thulin 20 documented
Plocama aucheri (Guill.) M.Backlund & Thulin 11 documented
Plocama reboudiana (Coss. & Durieu) M.Backlund & Thulin 4 documented
Plocama afghanica (Ehrend.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama alshehbazii F.O.Khass., Khamraeva, Khuzhan. & Achilova 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama asperuliformis (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama botschantzevii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama brevifolia (Coss. & Durieu ex Pomel) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama bruguieri (A.Rich. ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama bucharica (B.Fedtsch. & Des.-Shost.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama calcicola (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama calycoptera (Decne.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama crucianelloides (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama dezfulensis (Naanaie & Assadi) Bordbar & Mirtadz. 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama dubia (Aitch. & Hemsl.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama ehrendorferi Mirtadz. & Bordbar 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama eriantha (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama hymenostephana (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama iljinii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama inopinata (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama jolana (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama kandaharensis (Ehrend. & Qarar ex Ehrend. & Schönb.-Tem.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama macrantha (Blatt. & Hallb.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama mestscherjakovii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama olivieri (A.Rich. ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama puberula (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama putorioides (Radcl.-Sm.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama somaliensis (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama szowitzii (DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama thymoides (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama tinctoria (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama trichophylla (Popov) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama vassilczenkoi (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Plocama yemenensis (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin 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.