Rhinacanthus

Accepted species 24 Documented here 4 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Rhinacanthus nasutus (L.) Kurz 72 documented
Rhinacanthus gracilis Klotzsch 24 documented
Rhinacanthus xerophilus A.Meeuse 7 documented
Rhinacanthus flavovirens Amaras. & Wijes. 6 documented
Rhinacanthus angolensis I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus angulicaulis I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus beesianus Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus calcaratus (Wall.) Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus dichotomus (Lindau) I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus grandiflorus Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus humilis Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus kaokoensis K.Balkwill & S.D.Will. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus mucronatus Ensermu 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus oblongus (Nees) Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus osmospermus Bojer ex Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus perrieri Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus polonnaruwensis L.H.Cramer 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus pulcher Milne-Redh. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus rotundifolius C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus scoparius Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus selousensis I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus spiciformis Y.F.Deng, Z.L.Lin & D.V.Hai 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus submontanus T.Harris & I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Rhinacanthus zambesiacus I.Darbysh. 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.