Pterygota

Accepted species 22 Documented here 1 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Pterygota alata (Roxb.) R.Br. 12 documented
Pterygota adolfi-friederici Engl. & K.Krause 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota amazonica L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota amazonica L.O.Williams ex Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota augouardii Pellegr. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota bequaertii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota brasiliensis Allemão 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota bureavii Pierre 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota colombiana Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota excelsa (Standl. & L.O.Williams) Kosterm. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota forbesii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota horsfieldii (R.Br.) Kosterm. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota kamerunensis K.Schum. & Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota macrocarpa K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota madagascariensis Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota mildbraedii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota papuana Warb. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota perrieri Hochr. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota schoorkopfii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota schweinfurthii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota thwaitesii (Mast.) Alston 0 below the evidence gate
Pterygota trinervia K.Schum. 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.