Bulbinella

Accepted species 25 Documented here 15 Family Asphodelaceae

Accepted species 25 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
Bulbinella angustifolia (Cockayne & Laing) L.B.Moore 152 documented
Bulbinella trinervis (Baker) P.L.Perry 69 documented
Bulbinella nutans (Thunb.) T.Durand & Schinz 51 documented
Bulbinella cauda-felis (L.f.) T.Durand & Schinz 39 documented
Bulbinella hookeri (Colenso ex Hook.) Cheeseman 36 documented
Bulbinella rossii (Hook.f.) Cheeseman 27 documented
Bulbinella modesta L.B.Moore 19 documented
Bulbinella triquetra (L.f.) Kunth 19 documented
Bulbinella elegans Schltr. ex P.L.Perry 13 documented
Bulbinella punctulata Zahlbr. 12 documented
Bulbinella divaginata P.L.Perry 10 documented
Bulbinella barkerae P.L.Perry 5 documented
Bulbinella graminifolia P.L.Perry 5 documented
Bulbinella elata P.L.Perry 3 documented
Bulbinella talbotii L.B.Moore 3 documented
Bulbinella calcicola J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 2 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella chartacea P.L.Perry 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella ciliolata Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella eburniflora P.L.Perry 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella floribunda (Aiton) T.Durand & Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella gibbii Cockayne 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella gracilis Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella latifolia Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella nana P.L.Perry 0 below the evidence gate
Bulbinella potbergensis P.L.Perry 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.