Theobroma

Accepted species 21 Documented here 7 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 21 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
Theobroma cacao L. 213 documented
Theobroma speciosum Willd. ex Spreng. 25 documented
Theobroma bicolor Bonpl. 14 documented
Theobroma simiarum Donn.Sm. 8 documented
Theobroma grandiflorum (Willd. ex Spreng.) K.Schum. 5 documented
Theobroma angustifolium DC. 4 documented
Theobroma gileri Cuatrec. 4 documented
Theobroma bernoullii Pittier 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma canumanense Pires & Fróes ex Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma cirmolinae Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma duckei Huber 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma glaucum H.Karst. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma guianense (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma hylaeum Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma mammosum Cuatrec. & J.León 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma microcarpum Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma nemorale Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma obovatum Klotzsch ex Bernoulli 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma sinuosum Pav. ex Huber 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma sylvestris Aubl. ex Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Theobroma velutinum Benoist 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.