Polysphaeria

Accepted species 24 Documented here 0 Family Rubiaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Polysphaeria acuminata Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria aethiopica Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria arbuscula K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria braunii K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria capuronii Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria cleistocalyx Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria dischistocalyx Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria grandiflora Cavaco 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria grandis (Baill.) Cavaco 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria harrisii I.Darbysh. & C.Langa 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria hirta Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria lanceolata Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria lepidocarpa Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria macrantha Brenan 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria macrophylla K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria maxima (Baill.) Cavaco 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria multiflora Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria ntemii S.E.Dawson & Gereau 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria ovata Cavaco 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria parvifolia Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria pedunculata K.Schum. ex De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria ribauensis I.Darbysh. & C.Langa 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria subnudifaux Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Polysphaeria tubulosa (Baill.) Cavaco 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.