Ravenea

Accepted species 23 Documented here 5 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Ravenea madagascariensis Becc. 17 documented
Ravenea rivularis Jum. & H.Perrier 9 documented
Ravenea beentjei Rakotoarin. & J.Dransf. 4 documented
Ravenea hypoleuca Rakotoarin. & J.Dransf. 3 documented
Ravenea robustior Jum. & H.Perrier 3 documented
Ravenea dransfieldii Beentje 2 below the evidence gate
Ravenea louvelii Beentje 2 below the evidence gate
Ravenea glauca Jum. & H.Perrier 1 below the evidence gate
Ravenea sambiranensis Jum. & H.Perrier 1 below the evidence gate
Ravenea albicans (Jum.) Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea conferta Rakotoarin. 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea cycadifolia J.Dransf. 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea declivium J.Dransf. & Rakotoarin. 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea delicatula Rakotoarin. 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea hildebrandtii H.Wendl. ex C.D.Bouché 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea julietiae Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea krociana Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea lakatra (Jum.) Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea latisecta Jum. 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea moorei J.Dransf. & N.W.Uhl 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea musicalis Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea nana Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Ravenea xerophila Jum. 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.