Babiana

Accepted species 94 Documented here 53 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 94 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
Babiana ambigua (Roem. & Schult.) G.J.Lewis 194 documented
Babiana villosula (J.F.Gmel.) Ker Gawl. ex Steud. 152 documented
Babiana angustifolia Sweet 144 documented
Babiana fragrans (Jacq.) Steud. 127 documented
Babiana nervosa (Lam.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 89 documented
Babiana patula N.E.Br. 73 documented
Babiana rubrocyanea (Jacq.) Ker Gawl. 70 documented
Babiana hirsuta (Lam.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 69 documented
Babiana vanzijliae L.Bolus 68 documented
Babiana sambucina (Jacq.) Ker Gawl. 64 documented
Babiana dregei Baker 57 documented
Babiana curviscapa G.J.Lewis 53 documented
Babiana tubiflora (L.f.) Ker Gawl. 45 documented
Babiana regia (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 44 documented
Babiana odorata L.Bolus 41 documented
Babiana bainesii Baker 36 documented
Babiana patersoniae L.Bolus 35 documented
Babiana purpurea (Vahl) Ker Gawl. 32 documented
Babiana blanda (L.Bolus) G.J.Lewis 30 documented
Babiana pygmaea (Burm.f.) Baker 28 documented
Babiana leipoldtii G.J.Lewis 27 documented
Babiana tubulosa (Burm.f.) Ker Gawl. 23 documented
Babiana framesii L.Bolus 21 documented
Babiana villosa (Aiton) Ker Gawl. 19 documented
Babiana ringens (L.) Ker Gawl. 18 documented
Babiana fourcadei G.J.Lewis 17 documented
Babiana secunda (Thunb.) Ker Gawl. 17 documented
Babiana melanops Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 14 documented
Babiana nana (Andrews) Spreng. 14 documented
Babiana attenuata G.J.Lewis 13 documented
Babiana hypogaea Burch. 11 documented
Babiana cuneata J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 10 documented
Babiana sinuata G.J.Lewis 9 documented
Babiana ecklonii Klatt 8 documented
Babiana namaquensis Baker 8 documented
Babiana radiata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 8 documented
Babiana inclinata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 7 documented
Babiana scabrifolia W.Brehmer ex Klatt 7 documented
Babiana brachystachys (Baker) G.J.Lewis 6 documented
Babiana fimbriata (Klatt) Baker 6 documented
Babiana flabellifolia Harv. ex Klatt 5 documented
Babiana karooica Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 5 documented
Babiana mucronata (Jacq.) Ker Gawl. 5 documented
Babiana grandiflora Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 4 documented
Babiana horizontalis G.J.Lewis 4 documented
Babiana pilosa G.J.Lewis 4 documented
Babiana spathacea (L.f.) Ker Gawl. 4 documented
Babiana auriculata G.J.Lewis 3 documented
Babiana praemorsa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 3 documented
Babiana rubella Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 3 documented
Babiana salteri G.J.Lewis 3 documented
Babiana tanquana J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 3 documented
Babiana virescens Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 3 documented
Babiana engysiphon J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 2 below the evidence gate
Babiana latifolia L.Bolus 2 below the evidence gate
Babiana planifolia (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 2 below the evidence gate
Babiana crispa G.J.Lewis 1 below the evidence gate
Babiana lewisiana B.Nord. 1 below the evidence gate
Babiana lineolata Klatt 1 below the evidence gate
Babiana pubescens (Lam.) G.J.Lewis 1 below the evidence gate
Babiana teretifolia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Babiana torta G.J.Lewis 1 below the evidence gate
Babiana arenicola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana avicularis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana carminea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana cedarbergensis G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana cinnamomea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana confusa (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana foliosa G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana gariepensis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana geniculata G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana lanata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana lapeirousioides Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana lata G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana lobata G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana longicollis Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana minuta G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana montana G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana noctiflora J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana papyracea Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana pauciflora G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana petiolata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana rigidifolia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana rivulicola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana scariosa G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana spiralis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana stenomera Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana striata (Jacq.) G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana symmetrantha Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana toximontana J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana tritonioides G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana tubaeformis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana unguiculata G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Babiana virginea Goldblatt 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.