Polycarpaea

Accepted species 22 Documented here 5 Family Caryophyllaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam. 64 documented
Polycarpaea nivea Webb 14 documented
Polycarpaea gayi Webb 9 documented
Polycarpaea robbairea (Kuntze) Greuter & Burdet 7 documented
Polycarpaea aristata (Aiton) C.Sm. ex DC. 5 documented
Polycarpaea aurea (Wight) Wight & Arn. ex B.D.Jacks. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea carnosa C.Sm. ex Link 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea douliotii Danguy 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea eriantha Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea gaudichaudii Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea glabrifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea grahamii Turrill 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea hassleriana Chodat & Hassl. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea inaequalifolia Engl. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea linearifolia (DC.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea poggei Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea repens Asch. & Schweinf. ex Asch. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea rosulans (Gagnep.) Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea spicata Wight ex Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea stellata DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea tenuifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Polycarpaea tenuistyla Turrill 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.