Polhillia

Accepted species 11 Documented here 11 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 11 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
Polhillia pallens C.H.Stirt. 80 documented
Polhillia involucrata (Thunb.) B.-E.van Wyk & A.L.Schutte 76 documented
Polhillia stirtoniana du Preez 75 documented
Polhillia curtisiae C.H.Stirt. & Muasya 60 documented
Polhillia obsoleta (Harv.) B.-E.van Wyk 47 documented
Polhillia xairuensis du Preez 40 documented
Polhillia ignota Boatwr. 39 documented
Polhillia fortunata du Preez 28 documented
Polhillia brevicalyx (C.H.Stirt.) B.-E.van Wyk & A.L.Schutte 27 documented
Polhillia connata (Harv.) C.H.Stirt. 27 documented
Polhillia groenewaldii du Preez 19 documented

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.