Polystemma

Accepted species 27 Documented here 4 Family Apocynaceae

Accepted species 27 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
Polystemma guatemalense (Schltr.) W.D.Stevens 82 documented
Polystemma pilosum (Benth.) Morillo 37 documented
Polystemma cordifolium (A.Gray) McDonnell & Fishbein 12 documented
Polystemma fuscum (Decne.) C.Cerv., S.Arias & L.O.Alvarado 3 documented
Polystemma petiolare (A.Gray) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 2 below the evidence gate
Polystemma fruticosum (Brandegee) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 1 below the evidence gate
Polystemma adenocardium (Standl.) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma angustilobum (B.L.Rob. & Greenm.) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma atreyui Pío-León, L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma calcicola (Greenm.) Morillo 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma canisferum McDonnell & Fishbein 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma cervantesii (Lozada-Pérez & L.O.Alvarado) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma cordatum (Brandegee) L.O.Alvarado 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma fishbeiniana V.W.Steinm. & W.D.Stevens 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma galindoi Pío-León, L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma horconesense C.D.Sánchez, L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma leopardum L.O.Alvarado, García-Mend., D.Sandoval & Lozada-Pérez 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma luridum (Decne.) C.Cerv., Flores Olv. & L.O.Alvarado 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma magallanesii (E.J.Lott) Morillo 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma mirandae Lozada-Pérez 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma pueblense (Brandegee) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma purpusii (Brandegee) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma quercetorum (Standl.) Morillo 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma scopulorum Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma stevensii G.M.Hern.-Barón, Trujillo-Juárez & V.W.Steinm. 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma tristiflorum (Standl.) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 0 below the evidence gate
Polystemma umbellatum (Brandegee) L.O.Alvarado & S.Islas 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.