Saccharum

Accepted species 19 Documented here 4 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 19 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
Saccharum spontaneum L. 200 documented
Saccharum officinarum L. 26 documented
Saccharum angustifolium (Nees) Trin. 11 documented
Saccharum filifolium Steud. 5 documented
Saccharum beccarii (Stapf) Cope 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum formosanum (Stapf) Ohwi 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum griffithii Munro ex Aitch. 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum intermedium Welker & Peichoto 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum kajkaiense (Melderis) Melderis 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum longesetosum (Andersson) V.Naray. ex Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum longisetosum Nayaran. ex Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum maximum (Brongn.) Trin. 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum robustum E.W.Brandes & Jeswiet ex Grassl 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum sikkimense (Hook.f.) V.Naray. ex Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum sinense Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum stewartii Rajesw., R.R.Rao & Arti Garg 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum velutinum (Holttum) Cope 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum wardii (Bor) Bor ex Cope 0 below the evidence gate
Saccharum williamsii (Bor) Bor ex Cope 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.