Sarcocaulon

Accepted species 13 Documented here 9 Family Geraniaceae

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
Sarcocaulon spinosum Kuntze 121 documented
Sarcocaulon camdeboense Moffett 89 documented
Sarcocaulon multifidum R.Knuth 39 documented
Sarcocaulon herrei L.Bolus 16 documented
Sarcocaulon ciliatum Moffett 15 documented
Sarcocaulon patersonii (DC.) G.Don 11 documented
Sarcocaulon marlothii Engl. 8 documented
Sarcocaulon flavescens S.E.A.Rehm 4 documented
Sarcocaulon salmoniflorum Moffett 4 documented
Sarcocaulon mossamedense (Welw. ex Oliv.) Hiern 15 below the evidence gate
Sarcocaulon inerme S.E.A.Rehm 0 below the evidence gate
Sarcocaulon peniculinum Moffett 0 below the evidence gate
Sarcocaulon vanderietiae L.Bolus 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.