Raphia

Accepted species 22 Documented here 2 Family Arecaceae

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
Raphia australis Oberm. & Strey 27 documented
Raphia farinifera (Gaertn.) Hyl. 6 documented
Raphia africana Otedoh 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia diasticha Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia gabonica S.Mogue, Sonké & Couvreur 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia gentiliana De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia hookeri G.Mann & H.Wendl. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia laurentii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia longiflora G.Mann & H.Wendl. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia mannii Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia matombe De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia monbuttorum Drude 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia palma-pinus (Gaertn.) Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia regalis Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia rostrata Burret 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia ruwenzorica Otedoh 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia sese De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia sudanica A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia taedigera (Mart.) Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia textilis Welw. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia vinifera P.Beauv. 0 below the evidence gate
Raphia zamiana S.Mogue, Sonké & Couvreur 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.