Astelia

Accepted species 31 Documented here 19 Family Asteliaceae

Accepted species 31 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
Astelia fragrans Colenso 453 documented
Astelia hastata Colenso 428 documented
Astelia nervosa Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f. 331 documented
Astelia solandri A.Cunn. 286 documented
Astelia banksii A.Cunn. 150 documented
Astelia grandis Hook.f. ex Kirk 127 documented
Astelia trinervia Kirk 116 documented
Astelia graminea L.B.Moore 50 documented
Astelia petriei Cockayne 45 documented
Astelia alpina R.Br. 37 documented
Astelia linearis Hook.f. 36 documented
Astelia microsperma Colenso 36 documented
Astelia chathamica (Skottsb.) L.B.Moore 33 documented
Astelia menziesiana Sm. 28 documented
Astelia skottsbergii L.B.Moore 25 documented
Astelia pumila (J.R.Forst.) Gaudich. 16 documented
Astelia argyrocoma A.Heller ex Skottsb. 13 documented
Astelia hemichrysa (Lam.) Kunth 9 documented
Astelia nivicola Cockayne ex Cheeseman 7 documented
Astelia neocaledonica Schltr. 1 below the evidence gate
Astelia australiana (J.H.Willis) L.B.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia montana Seem. 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia nadeaudii Drake 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia papuana Skottsb. 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia psychrocharis F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia rapensis Skottsb. 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia samoense (Skottsb.) Birch 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia spicata Colenso 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia subulata (Hook.f.) Cheeseman 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia tovii F.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Astelia waialealia Wawra 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.