Themeda

Accepted species 30 Documented here 3 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 30 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
Themeda triandra Forssk. 1,391 documented
Themeda quadrivalvis (L.) Kuntze 39 documented
Themeda villosa (Poir.) A.Camus 12 documented
Themeda arguens (L.) Hack. 1 below the evidence gate
Themeda anathera (Nees ex Steud.) Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda arundinacea (Roxb.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda avenacea (F.Muell.) Lugger 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda caudata (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda cymbaria Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda gigantea (Cav.) Hack. ex Duthie 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda helferi Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda hookeri (Griseb.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda huttonensis Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda idjenensis Jansen 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda idjensis Jansen 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda intermedia (Hack.) Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda laxa (Andersson) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda minor L.Liu 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda mooneyi Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda novoguineensis (Reeder) Jansen 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda odishae Chorghe, K.Prasad, Prasanna & Y.V.Rao 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda palakkadensis Chorghe, K.Prasad & Lakshmin. 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda polycephala Veldkamp 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda pseudotremula Potdar, Salunkhe & S.R.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda sabarimalayana Sreek. & V.J.Nair 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda saxicola Bor 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda strigosa (Buch.-Ham. ex Hook.f.) A.Camus 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda tremula (Nees ex Steud.) Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda trichiata S.L.Chen & T.D.Zhuang 0 below the evidence gate
Themeda yunnanensis S.L.Chen & T.D.Zhuang 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.