Pterolepis

Accepted species 20 Documented here 2 Family Melastomataceae

Accepted species 20 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
Pterolepis glomerata (Rottb.) Miq. 50 documented
Pterolepis trichotoma (Rottb.) Cogn. 3 documented
Pterolepis alpestris Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis buraeavi Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis caracana Glaz. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis cataphracta Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis cearensis Huber 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis clidemioides Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis haplostemona Almeda & A.B.Martins 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis herincqniana Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis hirsutissima Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis parnassiifolia Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis perpusilla Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis piatensis (S.S.Renner) J.G.Freitas & A.K.A.Santos 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis picorondonica S.S.Renner 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis polygonoides Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis repanda (DC.) Triana 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis riedeliana Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis rotundifolia Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Pterolepis stenophylla Gleason 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.