Tetraria

Accepted species 40 Documented here 18 Family Cyperaceae

Accepted species 40 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
Tetraria thermalis (L.) C.B.Clarke 625 documented
Tetraria ustulata (L.) C.B.Clarke 360 documented
Tetraria bromoides (Lam.) H.Pfeiff. 335 documented
Tetraria involucrata (Rottb.) C.B.Clarke 142 documented
Tetraria eximia C.B.Clarke 100 documented
Tetraria microstachys (Vahl) H.Pfeiff. 52 documented
Tetraria fasciata (Rottb.) C.B.Clarke 47 documented
Tetraria crinifolia (Nees) C.B.Clarke 44 documented
Tetraria flexuosa (Thunb.) C.B.Clarke 33 documented
Tetraria triangularis (Boeckeler) C.B.Clarke 27 documented
Tetraria fourcadei Turrill & Schönland 25 documented
Tetraria capillacea (Thunb.) C.B.Clarke 23 documented
Tetraria fimbriolata (Nees) C.B.Clarke 22 documented
Tetraria secans C.B.Clarke 14 documented
Tetraria maculata Schönland & Turrill 9 documented
Tetraria pillansii Levyns 5 documented
Tetraria nigrovaginata (Nees) C.B.Clarke 4 documented
Tetraria robusta (Kunth) C.B.Clarke 3 documented
Tetraria arundinacea (Sol. ex Vahl) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria borneensis J.Kern 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria breviseta (J.Raynal) Larridon 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria burmanni (Vahl) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria cernua (Levyns) Larridon 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria comosa (C.B.Clarke) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria compressa Turrill 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria ferruginea C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria macowaniana B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria mlanjensis J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria pilisepala (Steud.) Larridon 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria pleosticha C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria pubescens Schönland & Turrill 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria pygmaea Levyns 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria raynaliana Larridon 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria scariosa Kük. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria setacea (J.Raynal) Larridon 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria spiralis (Hochst.) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria stagnalis (Däniker) T.Koyama 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria sylvestris (J.Raynal) Larridon 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria usambarensis K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Tetraria vaginata Schönland & Turrill 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.