Cephalophyllum

Accepted species 33 Documented here 16 Family Aizoaceae

Accepted species 33 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
Cephalophyllum spissum H.E.K.Hartmann 30 documented
Cephalophyllum pillansii L.Bolus 27 documented
Cephalophyllum tricolorum (Haw.) N.E.Br. 16 documented
Cephalophyllum curtophyllum (L.Bolus) Schwantes 14 documented
Cephalophyllum framesii L.Bolus 10 documented
Cephalophyllum ebracteatum (Pax ex Schltr. & Diels) Dinter & Schwantes 9 documented
Cephalophyllum loreum (L.) Schwantes 9 documented
Cephalophyllum rostellum (L.Bolus) H.E.K.Hartmann 8 documented
Cephalophyllum staminodiosum L.Bolus 8 documented
Cephalophyllum diversiphyllum (Haw.) N.E.Br. 6 documented
Cephalophyllum griseum (S.A.Hammer & U.Schmiedel) H.E.K.Hartmann 6 documented
Cephalophyllum inaequale L.Bolus 6 documented
Cephalophyllum parviflorum L.Bolus 4 documented
Cephalophyllum subulatoides (Haw.) N.E.Br. 4 documented
Cephalophyllum caespitosum H.E.K.Hartmann 3 documented
Cephalophyllum herrei L.Bolus 3 documented
Cephalophyllum niveum L.Bolus 1 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum alstonii Marloth ex L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum compressum L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum confusum (Dinter) Dinter & Schwantes 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum corniculatum (L.) Schwantes 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum fulleri L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum goodii L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum hallii L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum numeesense H.E.K.Hartmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum parvibracteatum (L.Bolus) H.E.K.Hartmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum parvulum (Schltr.) H.E.K.Hartmann 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum pulchellum L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum pulchrum L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum purpureoalbum (Haw.) Schwantes 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum regale L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum rigidum L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Cephalophyllum tetrastichum H.E.K.Hartmann 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.