Roystonea

Accepted species 10 Documented here 3 Family Arecaceae

Accepted species 10 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
Roystonea regia (Kunth) O.F.Cook 70 documented
Roystonea borinquena O.F.Cook 29 documented
Roystonea oleracea (Jacq.) O.F.Cook 8 documented
Roystonea dunlapiana P.H.Allen 3 below the evidence gate
Roystonea altissima (Mill.) H.E.Moore 2 below the evidence gate
Roystonea princeps (Becc.) Burret 1 below the evidence gate
Roystonea lenis León 0 below the evidence gate
Roystonea maisiana (L.H.Bailey) Zona 0 below the evidence gate
Roystonea stellata León 0 below the evidence gate
Roystonea violacea León 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.