Restionaceae

Genera 48 Accepted species 552 Documented here 217 Coverage 39%

We document 217 of the 552 accepted species in Restionaceae. The rest are listed, with their authorities and their identifiers, inside their genus. They have no page of their own because we could not find three openly licensed photographs of them, and a page without evidence is not a page we are willing to publish.

Genera we document 27 of 48

GenusDocumentedAccepted species
Restio 71 168
Elegia 38 50
Thamnochortus 21 34
Hypodiscus 11 15
Cannomois 10 12
Willdenowia 7 12
Askidiosperma 6 12
Platycaulos 6 12
Staberoha 6 9
Centrolepis 5 26
Rhodocoma 5 8
Ceratocaryum 4 8
Sporadanthus 4 8
Anthochortus 3 7
Apodasmia 3 4
Baloskion 3 8
Mastersiella 3 3
Anarthria 2 6
Aphelia 1 6
Desmocladus 1 23
Empodisma 1 3
Gaimardia 1 4
Hypolaena 1 7
Lepidobolus 1 9
Leptocarpus 1 16
Lyginia 1 3
Soroveta 1 1

Genera we do not yet document 21 genera

Real genera, accepted by World Flora Online, for which we have not yet found three commercially licensed photographs of any species. They are listed rather than hidden.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Family circumscription, accepted names, authorities. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.