Stylosanthes

Accepted species 50 Documented here 8 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 50 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
Stylosanthes biflora (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. 531 documented
Stylosanthes hamata (L.) Taub. 60 documented
Stylosanthes viscosa (L.) Sw. 45 documented
Stylosanthes fruticosa (Retz.) Alston 39 documented
Stylosanthes scabra Vogel 18 documented
Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw. 8 documented
Stylosanthes humilis Kunth 4 documented
Stylosanthes hippocampoides Mohlenbr. 3 documented
Stylosanthes hispida Rich. 1 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes acicularis Gissi & Fort.-Perez 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes angustifolia Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes arundinella Gissi 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes bracteata Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes calcicola Small 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes campestris M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes capitata Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes erecta P.Beauv. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes falconensis Calles & Schultze-Kr. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes ingrata S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes leiocarpa Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes linearifolia M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes longicarpa Brandão & Sousa Costa 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes longiseta Micheli 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes macrocarpa S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes macrocephala M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes macrosoma S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes maracajuensis Sousa Costa & Van den Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes mexicana Taub. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes microcephala (M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa) Gissi 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes minima J.J.S.Ferreira & Santos-Silva 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes mitzii J.J.S.Ferreira & Santos-Silva 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes montevidensis Vogel 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes nervosa J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes nunoi Brandão 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes pauciflora (M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa) Gissi 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes pohliana Taub. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes pubescens (Pilg.) Gissi 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes quintanarooensis Gama & Dávila 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes recta Vanni 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes rigida Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes rostrata (Burkart) Vanni 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes ruellioides Mart. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes salina Sousa Costa & Van den Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes seabrana B.L.Maass & 't Mannetje 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes sericeiceps S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes suffruticosa Mohlenbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes sympodialis Taub. 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes tuberculata S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes vallsii Sousa Costa & Van den Berg 0 below the evidence gate
Stylosanthes venezuelensis Calles & Schultze-Kr. 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.