Afrosolen

Accepted species 15 Documented here 0 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 15 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
Afrosolen erythranthus (Klotzsch ex Klatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen masukuensis (Vaupel & Schltr.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen sandersonii (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen abyssinicus (R.Br. ex A.Rich.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen avasmontanus (Dinter) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen bainesii (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen coeruleus (Schinz) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen erongoensis (Goldblatt & J.C.Manning) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen gracilis (Vaupel) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen otaviensis (R.C.Foster) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen rivularis (Wanntorp) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen schimperi (Asch. & Klatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen setifolius (Harms) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen teretifolius (Geerinck, Lisowski, Malaisse & Symoens) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Afrosolen zambesiacus (Goldblatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 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.