Stewartia

Accepted species 22 Documented here 4 Family Theaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Stewartia malacodendron L. 60 documented
Stewartia ovata (Cav.) Weath. 48 documented
Stewartia monadelpha Siebold & Zucc. 17 documented
Stewartia pseudocamellia Maxim. 3 documented
Stewartia pteropetiolata W.C.Cheng 2 below the evidence gate
Stewartia acutisepala P.L.Chiu & G.R.Zhong 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia calcicola T.L.Ming & J.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia cordifolia (H.L.Li) J.Li & T.L.Ming 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia crassifolia (S.Z.Yan) J.Li & T.L.Ming 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia densivillosa (Hu ex Hung T.Chang & C.X.Ye) J.Li & T.L.Ming 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia laotica (Gagnep.) J.Li & T.L.Ming 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia medogensis J.Li & T.L.Ming 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia micrantha (Chun) Sealy 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia obovata (Chun ex Hung T.Chang) J.Li & T.L.Ming 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia rostrata Spongberg 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia rubiginosa Hung T.Chang 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia serrata Maxim. 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia sichuanensis (S.Z.Yan) J.Li & T.L.Ming 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia sinensis Rehder & E.H.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia sinii (Y.C.Wu) Sealy 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia tonkinensis (Merr.) C.Y.Wu ex J.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Stewartia villosa Merr. 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.