Blepharis

Accepted species 128 Documented here 16 Family Acanthaceae

Accepted species 128 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
Blepharis capensis (L.f.) Pers. 161 documented
Blepharis mitrata C.B.Clarke 101 documented
Blepharis maderaspatensis (L.) B.Heyne ex Roth 58 documented
Blepharis furcata (L.f.) Pers. 35 documented
Blepharis integrifolia (L.f.) E.Mey. & Drège ex Schinz 26 documented
Blepharis diversispina (Nees) C.B.Clarke 12 documented
Blepharis procumbens (L.f.) Pers. 11 documented
Blepharis macra (Nees) Vollesen 10 documented
Blepharis subvolubilis C.B.Clarke 10 documented
Blepharis inermis (Nees) C.B.Clarke 8 documented
Blepharis aspera Oberm. 7 documented
Blepharis attenuata Napper 6 documented
Blepharis natalensis Oberm. 5 documented
Blepharis obmitrata C.B.Clarke 5 documented
Blepharis ciliaris (L.) B.L.Burtt 3 documented
Blepharis ilicina Oberm. 3 documented
Blepharis boranensis Vollesen 2 below the evidence gate
Blepharis sericea Vollesen 2 below the evidence gate
Blepharis edulis (Forssk.) Pers. 1 below the evidence gate
Blepharis gigantea Oberm. 1 below the evidence gate
Blepharis marginata (Nees) C.B.Clarke 1 below the evidence gate
Blepharis squarrosa (Nees) T.Anderson 1 below the evidence gate
Blepharis acanthodioides Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis acuminata Oberm. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis aequisepala Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis affinis Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis angusta (Nees) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis asteracantha C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis bainesii S.Moore ex C.B.Clarke. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis breyeri Oberm. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis buchneri Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis burundiensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis calcitrapa Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis chrysotricha Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis crinita Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis cuanzensis Welw. ex S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis cuspidata Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis decussata S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis dhofarensis A.G.Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis dilatata C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis diplodonta Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis drummondii Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis dunensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis duvigneaudii Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis eilensis Baldesi & Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis espinosa Phillips 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis exigua (Zoll. & Moritzi) Valeton ex Backer 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis fenestralis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis ferox P.G.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis flava Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis fleckii P.G.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis forgiarinii J.-P.Lebrun & Stork 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis gazensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis glinus Fiori 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis glomerans Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis glumacea S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis grandis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis grossa (Nees) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis gypsophila Thulin & Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis hildebrandtii Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis hirtinervia (Nees) T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis huillensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis ilicifolia Napper 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis inaequalis C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis inflata Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis innocua C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis inopinata Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis involucrata Solms ex Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis itigiensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis javanica Bremek. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis katangensis De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis kenyensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis kuriensis Vierh. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis laevifolia Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis lawsonii G.S.Giri & R.N.Banerjee 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis leendertziae Oberm. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis linariifolia Pers. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis longifolia Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis longispica C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis maculata Benoist 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis menocotyle Milne-Redh. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis meyeri Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis montana Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis noli-me-tangere S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis obermeyerae Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis obtusisepala Oberm. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis ogadenensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis panduriformis Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis paradoxa Fritsch 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis pascuorum S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis petalidioides Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis petraea Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis pratensis S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis pruinosa Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis pungens Klotzsch 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis pusilla Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis reekmansii Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis refracta Mildbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis richardsiae Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis saudensis Masrahi & Basahi 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis scandens Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis scindica Stocks ex T.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis serrulata (Nees) Picalho & Hiern 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis sinuata (Nees) C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis sol C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis somaliensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis spiculifolia Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis spinescens Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis spinifex Merxm. 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis spinipes Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis stainbankiae C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis stuhlmannii Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis subglabra Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis swaziensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis tanae Napper 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis tanganyikensis (Napper) Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis tanzaniensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis tenuiramea S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis tetrasticha Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis thulinii Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis torrei Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis transvaalensis Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis trifida Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis trispina Napper 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis turkanae Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis uniflora C.B.Clarke 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis uzondoensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Blepharis welwitschii S.Moore 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.