Albuca

Accepted species 133 Documented here 29 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 133 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
Albuca canadensis (L.) F.M.Leight. 168 documented
Albuca cooperi Baker 168 documented
Albuca setosa Jacq. 144 documented
Albuca longipes Baker 61 documented
Albuca flaccida Jacq. 40 documented
Albuca shawii Baker 37 documented
Albuca spiralis L.f. 27 documented
Albuca juncifolia Baker 21 documented
Albuca abyssinica Jacq. 18 documented
Albuca batteniana Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 16 documented
Albuca fragrans Jacq. 15 documented
Albuca aurea Jacq. 13 documented
Albuca humilis Baker 13 documented
Albuca deaconii van Jaarsv. 12 documented
Albuca nelsonii N.E.Br. 11 documented
Albuca viscosa L.f. 11 documented
Albuca glauca Baker 10 documented
Albuca namaquensis Baker 6 documented
Albuca paradoxa Dinter 6 documented
Albuca grandis J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 5 documented
Albuca kirkii (Baker) Brenan 5 documented
Albuca glandulosa Baker 4 documented
Albuca kirstenii (J.C.Manning & Goldblatt) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 4 documented
Albuca cremnophila van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk 3 documented
Albuca decipiens U.Müll.-Doblies 3 documented
Albuca goswinii U.Müll.-Doblies 3 documented
Albuca rupestris Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 3 documented
Albuca schoenlandii Baker 3 documented
Albuca villosa U.Müll.-Doblies 3 documented
Albuca acuminata Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Albuca bakeri Mart.-Azorín & M.B.Crespo 2 below the evidence gate
Albuca leucantha U.Müll.-Doblies 2 below the evidence gate
Albuca thermarum van Jaarsv. 2 below the evidence gate
Albuca ciliaris U.Müll.-Doblies 1 below the evidence gate
Albuca collina Baker 1 below the evidence gate
Albuca crispa J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 1 below the evidence gate
Albuca adlami Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca adlamii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca allenae Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca amboensis (Schinz) Oberm. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca angolensis Welw. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca anisocrispa Mart.-Azorín & M.B.Crespo 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca annulata Mart.-Azorín & M.B.Crespo 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca bainesii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca baurii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca bifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca bifoliata R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca blepharophylla Cufod. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca boucheri U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca bruce-bayeri U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca buchananii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca buffelspoortensis Van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca caudata Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca chaetopoda Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca chlorantha Welw. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca clanwilliamae-gloria U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca clanwilliamigloria U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca corymbosa Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca crinifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca crudenii Archibald 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca dalyae Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca darlingana U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca dinteri U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca echinosperma U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca englerana Krause & Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca engleriana K.Krause & Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca etesiogaripensis U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca fastigiata Dryand. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca fibrillosa De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca fibrosa Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca fibrotunicata Gledhill & Oyewole 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca fleckii Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca foetida U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca galeata Welw. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca gariepensis J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca gentilii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca gildenhuysii (van Jaarsv.) van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca gildenhuysii (van Jaarsv.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca grandiflora (Baker) Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo & M.Á.Alonso 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca hallii U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca hereroensis Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca hesquaspoortensis U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca heydenrychii van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca homblei De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca karasbergensis Glover 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca karooica U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca kassneri Engl. & K.Krause ex De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca katangensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca kundelungensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca laxiflora Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca laxifolia Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca longifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca longifolia Fisch. ex F.Dietr. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca lugardii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca macowanii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca malangensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca massonii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca maxima Burm.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca melleri (Baker) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca monophylla Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca myogaloides Welw. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca nana Schönland 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca navicula U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca nematodes Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca nigritana (Baker) Troupin 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca noubae A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca orientalis van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca papyracea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca pendula B.Mathew 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca polyphylla Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca prolifera J.H.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca pseudobifolia Mart.-Azorín & M.B.Crespo 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca riebeekkasteelberganula U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca rigida Salisb. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca robertsoniana U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca rogersii Schönland 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca scabro-marginata De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca schinzii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca schlechteri Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca somersetianum M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca steudneri Schweinf. & Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca subspicata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca sudanica A.Chev. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca tenuifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca tenuis Knudtzon 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca tortuosa Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca trachyphylla U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca variegata De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca wakefieldii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca weberlingiorum U.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca xanthocodon Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca yerburyi Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Albuca zenkeri Engl. 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.