Tetragonia

Accepted species 52 Documented here 18 Family Aizoaceae

Accepted species 52 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
Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze 3,701 documented
Tetragonia fruticosa L. 438 documented
Tetragonia decumbens Mill. 237 documented
Tetragonia implexicoma (Miq.) Hook.f. 148 documented
Tetragonia echinata Aiton 36 documented
Tetragonia rosea Schltr. 17 documented
Tetragonia herbacea L. 14 documented
Tetragonia microptera Fenzl 14 documented
Tetragonia maritima Barnéoud 11 documented
Tetragonia microcarpa Phil. 10 documented
Tetragonia nigrescens Eckl. & Zeyh. 8 documented
Tetragonia saligna Fenzl 8 documented
Tetragonia sarcophylla Fenzl 6 documented
Tetragonia verrucosa Fenzl 6 documented
Tetragonia portulacoides Fenzl 5 documented
Tetragonia angustifolia Barnéoud 4 documented
Tetragonia calycina Fenzl 4 documented
Tetragonia spicata L.f. 3 documented
Tetragonia namaquensis Schltr. 2 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia ovata Phil. 1 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia acanthocarpa Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia arbuscula Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia arbusculoides Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia caesia Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia chenopodioides Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia copiapina Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia coronata Rye & Trudgen 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia cristata C.A.Gardner ex A.M.Prescott 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia crystallina L'Hér. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia diptera F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia distorta Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia erecta Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia eremaea Ostenf. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia espinosae Muñoz 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia galenioides Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia glauca Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia halimoides Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia haworthii Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia hirsuta L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia lanceolata Burm.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia lasiantha Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia macrocarpa Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia macroptera Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia moorei M.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia pedunculata Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia pillansii Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia rangeana Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia reduplicata Welw. ex Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia robusta Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia sphaerocarpa Adamson 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia vestita I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetragonia virgata Schltr. 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.