Pterocaulon

Accepted species 28 Documented here 13 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 28 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
Pterocaulon pycnostachyum Elliott 413 documented
Pterocaulon serrulatum Guillaumin 80 documented
Pterocaulon virgatum (L.) DC. 47 documented
Pterocaulon redolens (Willd.) Fern.-Vill. 44 documented
Pterocaulon redolens (G.Forst. ex Willd.) Benth. ex Fern.-Vill. 44 documented
Pterocaulon lorentzii Malme 24 documented
Pterocaulon sphacelatum (Labill.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex F.Muell. 21 documented
Pterocaulon polystachyum DC. 16 documented
Pterocaulon balansae Chodat 10 documented
Pterocaulon angustifolium DC. 7 documented
Pterocaulon cordobense Kuntze 6 documented
Pterocaulon purpurascens Malme 5 documented
Pterocaulon alopecuroides (Lam.) DC. 3 documented
Pterocaulon brachyanthum A.R.Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon ciliosum A.R.Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon discolor A.R.Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon globuliforus W.Fitzg. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon intermedium (DC.) A.R.Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon lanatum Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon niveum Cabrera & Ragonese 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon paradoxum A.R.Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon polypterum (DC.) Cabrera 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon rugosum Malme 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon sphaeranthoides (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon spicatum DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon tricholobum A.R.Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon verbascifolium F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterocaulon xenicum A.R.Bean 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.