Sciaphila

Accepted species 49 Documented here 0 Family Triuridaceae

Accepted species 49 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
Sciaphila albescens Benth. 2 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila madagascariensis (C.H.Wright) V.Merckx & Byng 1 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila africana A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila alba Tsukaya & Suetsugu 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila aneitensis Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila arcuata Aver. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila arfakiana Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila atra Dančák, Hroneš & Sochor 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila barbata (Nuraliev & Cheek) V.Merckx & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila betung-kerihunensis Tsukaya & H.Okada 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila brevistyla Tsukaya & H.Okada 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila consimilis Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila corallophyton K.Schum. & Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila corniculata Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila corymbosa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila densiflora Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila inouei Tsukaya & Suetsugu 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila janthina (Champ.) Thwaites 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila jianfenglingensis Han Xu, Y.D.Li & H.Q.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila khasiana Benth. & Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila kozushimensis Suetsugu 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila lambirensis Suetsugu 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila ledermannii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila major Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila megastyla Fukuy. & T.Suzuki 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila micranthera Giesen 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila multiflora Giesen 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila mwanihanensis V.Merckx & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila nana Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila oligantha Maas 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila papillosa Becc. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila perrieri (Schltr.) V.Merckx & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila picta Miers 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila polygyna Maas 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila purpurea Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila quadribullifera J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila ramosa Fukuy. & T.Suzuki 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila rubra Maas 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila schwackeana Johow 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila secundiflora Thwaites ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila stellata Aver. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila sugimotoi Suetsugu & T.Nishioka 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila tenella Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila thaidanica K.Larsen 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila thomassetii (Hemsl.) V.Merckx & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila tosaensis Makino 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila wariana (Schltr.) Meerend. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila winkleri Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sciaphila yakushimensis Suetsugu, Tsukaya & H.Ohashi 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.