Staphylea

Accepted species 24 Documented here 10 Family Staphyleaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Staphylea trifolia L. 1,115 documented
Staphylea pinnata L. 137 documented
Staphylea formosana (Nakai) Byng & Christenh. 131 documented
Staphylea japonica (Thunb.) Mabb. 87 documented
Staphylea colchica Steven 28 documented
Staphylea ternata (Nakai) Byng & Christenh. 19 documented
Staphylea arguta (Seem.) Byng & Christenh. 11 documented
Staphylea bumalda DC. 6 documented
Staphylea tricornuta (Lundell) Byng & Christenh. 5 documented
Staphylea insignis (Tul.) Byng & Christenh. 4 documented
Staphylea pringlei S.Watson 2 below the evidence gate
Staphylea bolanderi A.Gray 1 below the evidence gate
Staphylea affinis (Merr. & L.M.Perry) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea campanulata J.Wen 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea cochinchinensis (Lour.) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea emodi Wall. ex Brandis 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea forrestii Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea holocarpa Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea indochinensis (Merr.) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea macrosperma (C.C.Huang) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea megaphylla (Tul.) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea shweliensis W.W.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea subsessilifolia (C.Y.Wu) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Staphylea yuanjiangensis K.M.Feng & T.Z.Hsu 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.