Sophora

Accepted species 70 Documented here 19 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 70 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
Sophora microphylla Aiton 611 documented
Sophora tomentosa L. 226 documented
Sophora chrysophylla (Salisb.) Seem. 192 documented
Sophora prostrata Buchanan 190 documented
Sophora chathamica Cockayne 163 documented
Sophora nuttalliana B.L.Turner 99 documented
Sophora molloyi Heenan & de Lange 88 documented
Sophora fulvida (Allan) Heenan & de Lange 62 documented
Sophora cassioides (F.Phil.) Sparre 45 documented
Sophora macrocarpa Sm. 42 documented
Sophora stenophylla A.Gray 28 documented
Sophora alopecuroides L. 27 documented
Sophora longicarinata G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson 20 documented
Sophora tetraptera J.S.Muell. 20 documented
Sophora flavescens Aiton 12 documented
Sophora godleyi Heenan & de Lange 12 documented
Sophora denudata Bory 5 documented
Sophora masafuerana (Phil.) Skottsb. 5 documented
Sophora conollyi (Bunge ex Boiss.) M.Liao & Bo Xu 4 documented
Sophora pachycarpa Schrenk ex C.A.Mey. 2 below the evidence gate
Sophora fernandeziana (Phil.) Skottsb. 1 below the evidence gate
Sophora howinsula (W.R.B.Oliv.) P.S.Green 1 below the evidence gate
Sophora leachiana M.E.Peck 1 below the evidence gate
Sophora acuminata Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora albescens (Rehder) C.Y.Ma 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora albopetiolulata Leonard 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora bakeri C.B.Clarke ex Prain 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora benthamii Steenis 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora brachygyna C.Y.Ma 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora davidii (Franch.) Skeels 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora dunii Prain 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora elongata S.P.Chen & W.J.Lin 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora exigua Craib 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora franchetiana Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora fraseri Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora gibbosa (DC.) Yakovlev 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora huamotensis Mattapha, Suddee & Rueangr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora inhambanensis Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora interrupta Bedd. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora jaubertii Spach 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora koreensis Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora lehmannii (Bunge) Yakovlev 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora linearifolia Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora longipes Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora ludovicea-decima-sexta Buc'hoz 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora macnabiana (Graham) Skottsb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora mangarevaensis H.St.John 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora microcarpa C.Y.Ma 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora mollis (Royle) Graham ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora moorcroftiana (Benth.) Benth. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora oblongata P.C.Tsoong 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora oblongifolia Ruiz & Pav. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora pentaphylla Desv. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora phulangkaensis Mattapha, K.Khamm. & Suddee 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora praetorulosa P.T.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora raivavaeensis H.St.John 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora rapaensis H.St.John 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora reediana (Phil.) Yakovlev 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora rhynchocarpa Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora saxicola Proctor 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora sinuata LarraƱaga 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora songarica Schrenk 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora toromiro (Phil.) Skottsb. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora velutina Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora violacea Thwaites 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora wightii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora xanthoantha C.Y.Ma 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora yunnanensis C.Y.Ma 0 below the evidence gate
Sophora zeylanica Trimen 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.