Aletris

Accepted species 24 Documented here 8 Family Nartheciaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Aletris farinosa L. 233 documented
Aletris lutea Small 179 documented
Aletris aurea Walter 141 documented
Aletris obovata Nash 33 documented
Aletris glabra Bureau & Franch. 22 documented
Aletris spicata (Thunb.) Franch. 11 documented
Aletris bracteata Northr. 6 documented
Aletris pauciflora (Klotzsch) Hand.-Mazz. 4 documented
Aletris foliata (Maxim.) Bureau & Franch. 3 below the evidence gate
Aletris × tottenii E.T.Browne 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris alpestris Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris capitata F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris cinerascens F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris foliolosa Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris glandulifera Bureau & Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris gracilis Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris laxiflora Bureau & Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris megalantha F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris nana S.C.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris pedicellata F.T.Wang & Tang 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris scopulorum Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris simpliciflora R.Li & Shu D.Zhang 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris stenoloba Franch. 0 below the evidence gate
Aletris yaanica G.H.Yang 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.