Dianella

Accepted species 40 Documented here 16 Family Asphodelaceae

Accepted species 40 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
Dianella nigra Colenso 521 documented
Dianella ensifolia (L.) Redouté 263 documented
Dianella revoluta R.Br. 236 documented
Dianella caerulea Sims 131 documented
Dianella longifolia R.Br. 99 documented
Dianella amoena G.W.Carr & P.F.Horsfall 93 documented
Dianella sandwicensis Hook. & Arn. 62 documented
Dianella tasmanica Hook.f. 58 documented
Dianella brevicaulis (Ostenf.) G.W.Carr & P.F.Horsfall 40 documented
Dianella haematica Heenan & de Lange 20 documented
Dianella brevipedunculata R.J.F.Hend. 18 documented
Dianella prunina R.J.F.Hend. 12 documented
Dianella atraxis R.J.F.Hend. 9 documented
Dianella callicarpa G.W.Carr & P.F.Horsfall 9 documented
Dianella latissima Heenan & de Lange 7 documented
Dianella adenanthera (G.Forst.) R.J.F.Hend. 4 documented
Dianella javanica (Blume) Kunth 2 below the evidence gate
Dianella rara R.Br. 1 below the evidence gate
Dianella acutifolia Schlittler 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella bambusifolia Hallier f. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella carolinensis Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella congesta R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella crinoides R.J.F.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella daenikeri Schlittler 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella dentata Schlittler 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella fruticans R.J.F.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella incollata R.J.F.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella intermedia Endl. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella monophylla Hallier f. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella nervosa R.J.F.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella odorata Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella pavopennacea R.J.F.Hend. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella pendula Schlittler 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella plicata Schlittler 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella porracea (R.J.F.Hend.) Horsfall & G.W.Carr 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella saffordiana Fosberg & Sachet 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella serrulata Hallier f. 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella stipitata Schlittler 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella tarda Horsfall & G.W.Carr 0 below the evidence gate
Dianella tenuissima G.W.Carr 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.