Tribulus

Accepted species 30 Documented here 5 Family Zygophyllaceae

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
Tribulus terrestris L. 2,009 documented
Tribulus cistoides L. 206 documented
Tribulus cristatus C.Presl 17 documented
Tribulus zeyheri Sond. 13 documented
Tribulus hirsutus Benth. 4 documented
Tribulus pentandrus Forssk. 5 below the evidence gate
Tribulus astrocarpus F.Muell. 2 below the evidence gate
Tribulus suberosus H.Eichler ex R.M.Barker 2 below the evidence gate
Tribulus adelacanthus R.M.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus arabicus Hosni 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus bimucronatus Viv. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus echinops Kers 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus eichlerianus K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus excrucians Wawra 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus forrestii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus hystrix R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus incanus Hosni 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus kaiseri Hosni 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus macrocarpus F.Muell. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus macropterus Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus megistopterus Kralik 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus micrococcus Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus minutus Leichh. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus mollis Ehrenb. ex Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus occidentalis R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus parvispinus C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus platypterus Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus ranunculiflorus F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus spurius Kralik 0 below the evidence gate
Tribulus subramanyamii P.Singh, G.S.Giri & V.Singh 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.