Pontederia

Accepted species 27 Documented here 12 Family Pontederiaceae

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
Pontederia cordata L. 2,442 documented
Pontederia crassipes Mart. 1,468 documented
Pontederia vaginalis Burm.f. 160 documented
Pontederia azurea Sw. 85 documented
Pontederia rotundifolia L.f. 35 documented
Pontederia sagittata C.Presl 29 documented
Pontederia korsakowii (Regel & Maack) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 18 documented
Pontederia natans P.Beauv. 10 documented
Pontederia heterosperma (Alexander) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 7 documented
Pontederia gigantea D.J.Sousa 5 documented
Pontederia reflexa D.J.Sousa 5 documented
Pontederia australasica (Ridl.) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 4 documented
Pontederia hastata L. 2 below the evidence gate
Pontederia paniculata Spreng. 2 below the evidence gate
Pontederia elata (Ridl.) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 1 below the evidence gate
Pontederia ovalis Mart. ex Schult.f. 1 below the evidence gate
Pontederia subovata (Seub.) Lowden 1 below the evidence gate
Pontederia africana (Solms) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia brevipetiolata (Verdc.) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia cyanea (F.Muell.) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia diversifolia (Vahl) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia meyeri (A.G.Schulz) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia paradoxa Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia parviflora Alexander 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia plantaginea Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia triflora (Seub.) G.Agostini, D.Velásquez & Velásquez 0 below the evidence gate
Pontederia valida (Nagam. & G.X.Wang) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn 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.