Rubia

Accepted species 88 Documented here 15 Family Rubiaceae

Accepted species 88 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
Rubia peregrina L. 416 documented
Rubia petiolaris DC. 90 documented
Rubia fruticosa Aiton 68 documented
Rubia cordifolia L. 50 documented
Rubia tinctorum L. 50 documented
Rubia argyi (H.Lév. & Vaniot) H.Hara 27 documented
Rubia occidens Capelo, M.Seq. & H.Schaef. 27 documented
Rubia alata Wall. 17 documented
Rubia balearica (Willk.) Porta 16 documented
Rubia horrida (Thunb.) Puff 14 documented
Rubia chinensis Regel & Maack 12 documented
Rubia tenuifolia d'Urv. 12 documented
Rubia manjith Roxb. 8 documented
Rubia linii J.M.Chao 6 documented
Rubia tatarica (Trevir.) F.Schmidt 5 documented
Rubia agostinhoi Dans. & P.Silva 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia aitchisonii Deb & Malick 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia alaica Pachom. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia albicaulis Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia angustisissima Wall. ex G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia atropurpurea Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia austrozhejiangensis Z.P.Lei, Y.Y.Zhou & R.W.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia caramanica Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia charifolia Wall. ex G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia chitralensis Ehrend. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia clematidifolia Blume ex Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia crassipes Collett & Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia cretacea Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia danaensis Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia davisiana Ehrend. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia deserticola Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia discolor Turcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia dolichophylla Schrenk 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia edgeworthii Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia falciformis H.S.Lo 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia filiformis F.C.How ex H.S.Lo 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia florida Boiss. ex Hohen. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia garrettii Craib 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia gedrosiaca Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia haematantha Airy Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia hangii L.E Yang & Z.L.Nie 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia hexaphylla (Makino) Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia himalayensis Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia hispidicaulis D.G.Long 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia infundibularis Hemsl. & Lace 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia jesoensis (Miq.) Miyabe & Kudô 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia komarovii Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia krascheninnikovii Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia laevissima Tschern. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia latipetala H.S.Lo 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia laurae (Holmboe) Airy Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia laxiflora Gontsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia magna P.K.Hsiao 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia mandersii Collett & Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia maymanensis Ehrend. & Schönb.-Tem. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia membranacea Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia oncotricha Hand.-Mazz. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia oppositifolia Griff. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia ovatifolia Z.Ying Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia pallida Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia pauciflora Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia pavlovii Bajtenov & Myrz. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia philippinensis Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia pianmaensis R.Li & H.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia podantha Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia polyphlebia H.S.Lo 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia pseudogalium Ehrend. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia pterygocaulis H.S.Lo 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia rechingeri Ehrend. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia regelii Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia rezniczenkoana Litv. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia rigidifolia Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia rotundifolia Banks & Sol. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia salicifolia H.S.Lo 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia schugnanica B.Fedtsch. ex Pojark. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia schumanniana E.Pritz. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia siamensis Craib 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia sikkimensis Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia sylvatica (Maxim.) Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia tenuissima M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia thunbergii DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia tibetica Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia transcaucasica Grossh. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia trichocarpa H.S.Lo 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia truppeliana Loes. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia urceolata X.F.Wang & C.H.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia wallichiana Decne. 0 below the evidence gate
Rubia yunnanensis Diels 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.