Aristea

Accepted species 60 Documented here 23 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 60 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
Aristea ecklonii Baker 445 documented
Aristea capitata (L.) Ker Gawl. 379 documented
Aristea bakeri Klatt 358 documented
Aristea spiralis (L.f.) Ker Gawl. 318 documented
Aristea africana (L.) Hoffmanns. 312 documented
Aristea pusilla (Thunb.) Ker Gawl. 94 documented
Aristea abyssinica Pax 60 documented
Aristea torulosa Klatt 59 documented
Aristea juncifolia Eckl. ex Baker 54 documented
Aristea cantharophila Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 48 documented
Aristea dichotoma (Thunb.) Ker Gawl. 44 documented
Aristea lugens (L.f.) Weim. 44 documented
Aristea ensifolia J.Muir 43 documented
Aristea nana Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 38 documented
Aristea oligocephala Baker 30 documented
Aristea teretifolia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 27 documented
Aristea glauca Klatt 20 documented
Aristea racemosa Baker 13 documented
Aristea angolensis Baker 11 documented
Aristea simplex Weim. 9 documented
Aristea latifolia G.J.Lewis 8 documented
Aristea rufobracteata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 4 documented
Aristea rigidifolia G.J.Lewis 3 documented
Aristea cladocarpa Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Aristea zeyheri Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Aristea montana Baker 1 below the evidence gate
Aristea alata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea anceps Eckl. ex Klatt 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea angustifolia Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea bequaertii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea biflora Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea cistiflora J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea compressa Buchinger ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea cuspidata Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea djalonis Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea elliptica Goldblatt & A.P.Dold 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea farafangana Goldblatt & Phillipson 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea fimbriata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea flexicaulis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea galpinii N.E.Br. ex Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea goetzei Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea grandis Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea humbertii H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea inaequalis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea kitchingii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea madagascariensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea majubensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea monticola Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea nigrescens J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea nyikensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea palustris Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea parviflora Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea pauciflora Wolley-Dod 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea platycaulis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea polycephala Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea ranomafana Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea recisa Weim. 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea rupicola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea schizolaena Harv. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Aristea singularis Weim. 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.