Thymelaea

Accepted species 34 Documented here 13 Family Thymelaeaceae

Accepted species 34 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
Thymelaea hirsuta (L.) Endl. 260 documented
Thymelaea passerina (L.) Coss. & Germ. 41 documented
Thymelaea tinctoria (Pourr.) Endl. 26 documented
Thymelaea tarton-raira (L.) All. 18 documented
Thymelaea velutina (Pourr. ex Cambess.) Endl. 14 documented
Thymelaea coridifolia (Lam.) Endl. 12 documented
Thymelaea argentata (Lam.) Pau 11 documented
Thymelaea ruizii Loscos ex Casav. 9 documented
Thymelaea lythroides Barratte & Murb. 8 documented
Thymelaea sanamunda All. 8 documented
Thymelaea pubescens (L.) Meisn. 6 documented
Thymelaea villosa (L.) Endl. 5 documented
Thymelaea dioica (Gouan) All. 4 documented
Thymelaea broteriana Cout. 2 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea × conradiae Aboucaya & Médail 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea antiatlantica Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea aucheri Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea bulgarica Cheshm. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea calycina (Lapeyr.) Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea cilicica Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea elliptica (Boiss.) Endl. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea gattefossei H.K.Tan 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea granatensis (Pau) Lacaita 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea gussonei Boreau 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea lanuginosa (Lam.) Ceballos & C.Vicioso 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea mesopotamica (C.Jeffrey) B.Peterson 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea microphylla Coss. & Durieu 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea procumbens A.Fern. & R.Fern. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea putorioides Emb. & Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea salsa Murb. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea sempervirens Murb. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea subrepens Lange 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea virescens Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Thymelaea virgata (Desf.) Endl. 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.