Rotala

Accepted species 74 Documented here 9 Family Lythraceae

Accepted species 74 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
Rotala rotundifolia (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Koehne 82 documented
Rotala ramosior (L.) Koehne 79 documented
Rotala tripartita Beesley 27 documented
Rotala floribunda (Wight) Koehne 15 documented
Rotala malampuzhensis R.V.Nair ex C.D.K.Cook 8 documented
Rotala macrandra Koehne 4 documented
Rotala mexicana Schltdl. & Cham. 4 documented
Rotala indica (Willd.) Koehne 3 documented
Rotala serpyllifolia (Roth) Bremek. 3 documented
Rotala densiflora (Roth) Koehne 2 below the evidence gate
Rotala sahyadrica S.P.Gaikwad, Sardesai & S.R.Yadav 2 below the evidence gate
Rotala tenuis (Wight) Koehne 2 below the evidence gate
Rotala fimbriata Wight 1 below the evidence gate
Rotala anamika Lemiya 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala andamanensis S.P.Mathew & Lakshmin. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala belgaumensis S.R.Yadav, Malpure & Chandore 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala biglandulosa Arun Pr. & Sardesai 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala capensis (Harv.) A.Fern. & Diniz 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala cheruchakkiensis Anto, Devikrishna, Pulickal, C.D.Varghese & I.Antony 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala cookii K.T.Joseph & Sivar. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala cordata Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala cordipetala R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala dhaneshiana Sunil, Ratheesh & Sivad. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala diandra (F.Muell.) F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala dinteri Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala elatinoides Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala filiformis (Bellardi) Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala fluitans Pohnert 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala fontinalis Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala fysonii Blatt. & Hallb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala gerardii Boutique 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala gossweileri Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala halophila H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala hexandra Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala hippuris Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala hutchinsoniana A.Fern. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala illecebroides (Arn.) Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala juniperina A.Fern. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala kasaragodensis K.S.Prasad & Raveendran 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala khaleeliana Sunil, Ratheesh & Nandakumar 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala letouzeyana Bamps 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala longistyla Gibbs 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala lucalensis A.Fern. & Diniz 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala malabarica Pradeep, K.T.Joseph & Sivar. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala meenkulamensis K.S.Prasad & Raveendran 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala milne-redheadii A.Fern. & Diniz 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala myriophylloides Welw. ex Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala nashii A.Fern. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala nummularia Welw. ex Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala occultiflora Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala protracta W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala pseudojuniperina Lekhak & S.R.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala pterocalyx A.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala repens (Hochst.) Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala ritchiei Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala rosea (Poir.) C.D.K.Cook 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala rubra (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Hara 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala saxatilis W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala serpiculoides Welw. ex Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala simpliciuscula (Kurz) Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala smithii A.Fern. & Diniz 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala stagnina Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala stipulata Blatt. & Hallb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala stuhlmannii Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala subrotunda (Wall. ex Kurz) Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala taiwaniana Y.C.Liu & F.Y.Lu 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala tenella (Guill. & Perr.) Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala thymoides Exell 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala tulunadensis K.S.Prasad, P.Biju, Raveendran & K.G.Bhat 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala vasudevanii K.T.Joseph & Sivar. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala verdcourtii A.Fern. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala verticillaris L. 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala wallichii (Hook.f.) Koehne 0 below the evidence gate
Rotala welwitschii Exell 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.