Tibouchina

Accepted species 52 Documented here 1 Family Melastomataceae

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
Tibouchina bipenicillata (Naudin) Cogn. 11 documented
Tibouchina aegopogon (Naudin) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina albescens Cogn. ex Glaz. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina albescens Cogn. ex P.J.F.Guim., A.L.F.Oliveira & R.Romero 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina araguaiensis P.J.F.Guim. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina arstedii Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina aspera Aubl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina barbigera (Naudin) Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina bicolor (Naudin) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina bolivarensis Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina brevisepala Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina bruniana P.J.F.Guim. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina calycina Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina catharinae Pittier 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina cujabensis Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina dimorphophylla Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina dissitiflora Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina duidae Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina edmundoi Brade 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina exasperata (Naudin) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina fraterna N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina huberi Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina itatiaiae Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina johnwurdackiana Todzia 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina karstenii Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina lithophila Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina llanorum Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina macrorrhiza Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina major Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina mathaei Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina melastomoides (Naudin) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina micranthella M.Gómez 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina nigricans Cogn. ex P.J.F.Guim., A.L.F.Oliveira & R.Romero 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina octopetala Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina papyrus (Pohl) Toledo 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina pellucida M.Gómez 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina pogonanthera (Naudin) Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina quadrata M.Gómez 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina rosanae P.J.F.Guim. & Woodgyer 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina salviaefolia Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina sickii Brade 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina sipapoana Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina spruceana Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina steyermarkii Wurdack 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina striphnocalyx (DC.) Pittier 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina striphnocalyx (DC.) Gleason 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina terrariana Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina trinervia Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina triprovincialis R.Goldenb. & F.S.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina tuberculata Glaz. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina valtherii Cogn. 0 below the evidence gate
Tibouchina verticillaris Cogn. 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.