Alectra

Accepted species 33 Documented here 4 Family Orobanchaceae

Accepted species 33 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
Alectra sessiliflora (Vahl) Kuntze 156 documented
Alectra orobanchoides Benth. 14 documented
Alectra lurida Harv. 8 documented
Alectra picta (Hiern) Hemsl. 3 documented
Alectra basutica (E.Phillips) Melch. 2 below the evidence gate
Alectra alectroides (S.Moore) Melch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra arvensis (Benth.) Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra atrosanguinea (Hiern) Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra aurantiaca Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra avensis (Benth.) Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra bainesii Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra basserei Berhaut 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra capensis Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra dolichocalyx Philcox 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra dunensis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra fruticosa Eb.Fisch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra glandulosa Philcox 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra gracilis S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra hildebrandtii Eb.Fisch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra hirsuta Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra humbertii Eb.Fisch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra lancifolia Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra linearis Hepper 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra natalensis (Hiern) Melch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra parasitica A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra pseudobarleriae (Dinter) Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra pubescens Philcox 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra pumila Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra rigida (Hiern) Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra schoenfelderi Dinter & Melch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra stolzii Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra thyrsoidea Melch. 0 below the evidence gate
Alectra vogelii Benth. 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.