Sclerochiton

Accepted species 18 Documented here 1 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 18 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
Sclerochiton apiculatus Vollesen 6 documented
Sclerochiton harveyanus Nees 1 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton triacanthus A.Meeuse 1 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton bequaertii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton boivinii (Baill.) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton coeruleus (Lindau) S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton glandulosissimus Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton hirsutus Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton ilicifolius A.Meeuse 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton insignis (Mildbr.) Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton kirkii (T.Anderson) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton nitidus (S.Moore) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton obtusisepalus C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton odoratissimus Hilliard 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton preussii (Lindau) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton tanzaniensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton uluguruensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Sclerochiton vogelii (Nees) T.Anderson 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.