Striga

Accepted species 53 Documented here 9 Family Orobanchaceae

Accepted species 53 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
Striga bilabiata (Thunb.) Kuntze 144 documented
Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze 114 documented
Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke 95 documented
Striga elegans Benth. 68 documented
Striga angustifolia (D.Don) C.J.Saldanha 19 documented
Striga curviflora (R.Br.) Benth. 13 documented
Striga parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. 4 documented
Striga densiflora (Benth.) Benth. 3 documented
Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth. 3 documented
Striga aequinoctialis A.Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel 0 below the evidence gate
Striga alba Pennell 0 below the evidence gate
Striga angolensis K.I.Mohamed & Musselman 0 below the evidence gate
Striga aspera (Willd.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga barthlottii Eb.Fisch., Lobin & Mutke 0 below the evidence gate
Striga baumannii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga brachycalyx Skan 0 below the evidence gate
Striga chrysantha A.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Striga crispata Sheng Z.Yang, Zi X.Chen, Chien F.Chen & P.H.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Striga dalzielii Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga dewevrei De Wild. & T.Durand 0 below the evidence gate
Striga diversifolia Pires de Lima 0 below the evidence gate
Striga ellenbergeri A.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Striga flava Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga forbesii Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga fulgens (Engl.) Hepper 0 below the evidence gate
Striga gastonii A.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Striga glumacea A.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Striga gracillima Melch. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga hallaei A.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Striga indica K.M.P.Kumar, P.Jayanthi, A.Rajendran & M.Sabu 0 below the evidence gate
Striga junodii Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Striga kamalii Omalsree, K.M.P.Kumar, M.Sabu & Sunojk. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga klingii (Engl.) Skan 0 below the evidence gate
Striga latericea Vatke 0 below the evidence gate
Striga lepidagathidis A.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Striga linearifolia (Schumach. & Thonn.) Hepper 0 below the evidence gate
Striga lutea Lour. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga macrantha (Benth.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga magnibracteata Eb.Fisch. & I.Darbysh. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga masuria (Buch.-Ham. ex Benth.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga micrantha A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga multiflora Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga musselmanii Omalsree & V.K.Sreenivas 0 below the evidence gate
Striga passargei Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga pinnatifida Getachew 0 below the evidence gate
Striga primuloides A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga pubiflora Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Striga schlechteri Pennell 0 below the evidence gate
Striga spanogheana Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Striga squamigera W.R.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Striga strigosa R.D.Good 0 below the evidence gate
Striga sulphurea Dalzell 0 below the evidence gate
Striga yemenica Musselman & Hepper 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.