Rheum

Accepted species 44 Documented here 8 Family Polygonaceae

Accepted species 44 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
Rheum tataricum L.f. 135 documented
Rheum rhabarbarum L. 92 documented
Rheum compactum L. 38 documented
Rheum webbianum Royle 6 documented
Rheum nanum Siev. ex Pall. 5 documented
Rheum turkestanicum Janischew. 5 documented
Rheum alexandrae Batalin 4 documented
Rheum australe D.Don 4 documented
Rheum tibeticum Maxim. ex Hook.f. 2 below the evidence gate
Rheum palmatum L. 1 below the evidence gate
Rheum × hybridum Murray 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum acuminatum Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum altaicum Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum delavayi Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum forrestii Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum glabricaule Sam. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum globulosum Gage 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum hotaoense C.Y.Cheng & T.C.Kao 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum inopinatum Prain 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum kialense Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum laciniatum Prain 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum lhasaense A.J.Li & P.K.Hsiao 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum likiangense Sam. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum lucidum Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum macrocarpum Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum maculatum C.Y.Cheng & T.C.Kao 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum moorcroftianum Royle 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum nobile Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum officinale Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum przewalskyi Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum pumilum Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum racemiferum Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum reticulatum Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum rhaponticum L. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum rhizostachyum Schrenk 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum rhomboideum Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum ribes L. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum spiciforme Royle 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum subacaule Sam. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum sublanceolatum C.Y.Cheng & T.C.Kao 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum uninerve Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum wittrockii Lundstrom 0 below the evidence gate
Rheum yunnanense Sam. 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.