Tarenaya

Accepted species 36 Documented here 7 Family Cleomaceae

Accepted species 36 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
Tarenaya houtteana (Schltdl.) Soares Neto & Roalson 263 documented
Tarenaya aculeata (L.) Soares Neto & Roalson 22 documented
Tarenaya longicarpa Soares Neto & Roalson 20 documented
Tarenaya atropurpurea (Schott) Soares Neto & Roalson 12 documented
Tarenaya rosea (Vahl ex DC.) Soares Neto & Roalson 6 documented
Tarenaya spinosa (Jacq.) Raf. 6 documented
Tarenaya diffusa (Banks ex DC.) Soares Neto & Roalson 5 documented
Tarenaya boliviensis (Iltis) Soares Neto & Roalson 1 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya afrospina (Iltis) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya bernadeteana Soares Neto 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya bicolor (Gardner) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya chapalensis (Iltis) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya cordobensis (Eichler ex Griseb.) Arana & Oggero 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya costaricensis (Iltis) Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya crenopetala (DC.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya curvispina Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya domingensis (Iltis) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya eosina (J.F.Macbr.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya guaranitica (Chodat & Hassl.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya horrida (Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Roalson & Soares Neto 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya houstonii (R.Br.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya inermis (Malme) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya latifolia (Vahl ex DC.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya microcarpa (Ule) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya minutiflora Iltis & Cochrane 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya parviflora (Kunth) Iltis 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya pernambucensis Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya psoraleifolia (DC.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya regnellii (Eichler) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya siliculifera (Eichler) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya titubans (Speg.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya torticarpa (Iltis & T.Ruíz) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya trachycarpa (Klotzsch ex Eichler) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya tucumanensis (Iltis) Arana & Oggero 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya virens (J.F.Macbr.) Soares Neto & Roalson 0 below the evidence gate
Tarenaya werdermannii (Alf.Ernst) Soares Neto & Roalson 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.