Salvinia

Accepted species 13 Documented here 6 Family Salviniaceae

Accepted species 13 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
Salvinia minima Baker 339 documented
Salvinia molesta D.Mitch. 233 documented
Salvinia natans (L.) All. 199 documented
Salvinia cucullata Roxb. ex Bory 23 documented
Salvinia biloba Raddi 13 documented
Salvinia auriculata Aubl. 4 documented
Salvinia oblongifolia Mart. 1 below the evidence gate
Salvinia sprucei Kuhn 1 below the evidence gate
Salvinia × delasotae C.V.Miranda & Schwartsb. 0 below the evidence gate
Salvinia hastata Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Salvinia martynii Kopp 0 below the evidence gate
Salvinia nuriana de la Sota & Cassa 0 below the evidence gate
Salvinia nymphellula Desv. 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.