Cyclopia

Accepted species 23 Documented here 15 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Cyclopia subternata Vogel 407 documented
Cyclopia intermedia E.Mey. 279 documented
Cyclopia genistoides (L.) R.Br. 219 documented
Cyclopia galioides (P.J.Bergius) DC. 55 documented
Cyclopia glabra (Hofmeyr & E.Phillips) A.L.Schutte 54 documented
Cyclopia pubescens Eckl. & Zeyh. 53 documented
Cyclopia meyeriana Walp. 41 documented
Cyclopia sessiliflora Eckl. & Zeyh. 41 documented
Cyclopia plicata Kies 40 documented
Cyclopia alopecuroides A.L.Schutte 21 documented
Cyclopia maculata (Andrews) Kies 19 documented
Cyclopia burtonii Hofmeyr & E.Phillips 17 documented
Cyclopia bolusii Hofmeyr & E.Phillips 8 documented
Cyclopia bowieana Harv. 6 documented
Cyclopia buxifolia (Burm.f.) Kies 5 documented
Cyclopia alpina A.L.Schutte 3 below the evidence gate
Cyclopia aurescens Kies 2 below the evidence gate
Cyclopia falcata (Harv.) Kies 2 below the evidence gate
Cyclopia longifolia Vogel 1 below the evidence gate
Cyclopia filiformis Kies 0 below the evidence gate
Cyclopia latifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyclopia laxiflora Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Cyclopia squamosa A.L.Schutte 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.