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.
| Species | Authority | Usable photographs | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elegia capensis | (Burm.f.) Schelpe | 338 | documented |
| Elegia mucronata | Rchb. ex Kunth | 320 | documented |
| Elegia tectorum | (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder | 170 | documented |
| Elegia filacea | Mast. | 148 | documented |
| Elegia stipularis | Mast. | 134 | documented |
| Elegia nuda | (Rottb.) Kunth | 111 | documented |
| Elegia cuspidata | Mast. | 103 | documented |
| Elegia ebracteata | (Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder | 69 | documented |
| Elegia thyrsoidea | Pillans | 69 | documented |
| Elegia hookeriana | (Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder | 63 | documented |
| Elegia microcarpa | (Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder | 61 | documented |
| Elegia racemosa | Pers. | 56 | documented |
| Elegia equisetacea | Mast. | 48 | documented |
| Elegia juncea | L. | 42 | documented |
| Elegia squamosa | Mast. | 40 | documented |
| Elegia recta | (Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder | 38 | documented |
| Elegia fistulosa | Kunth | 31 | documented |
| Elegia spathacea | Mast. | 31 | documented |
| Elegia macrocarpa | (Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder | 27 | documented |
| Elegia muirii | Pillans | 27 | documented |
| Elegia asperiflora | (Nees) Kunth | 26 | documented |
| Elegia galpinii | N.E.Br. | 26 | documented |
| Elegia vaginulata | Mast. | 24 | documented |
| Elegia esterhuyseniae | Pillans | 20 | documented |
| Elegia persistens | Mast. | 18 | documented |
| Elegia extensa | Pillans | 16 | documented |
| Elegia aggregata | (Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder | 13 | documented |
| Elegia neesii | Mast. | 13 | documented |
| Elegia verreauxii | Mast. | 11 | documented |
| Elegia thyrsifera | Pers. | 10 | documented |
| Elegia deusta | (Rottb.) Kunth | 9 | documented |
| Elegia altigena | Pillans | 7 | documented |
| Elegia stokoei | Pillans | 7 | documented |
| Elegia coleura | Nees ex Mast. | 6 | documented |
| Elegia elephantina | H.P.Linder | 4 | documented |
| Elegia hutchinsonii | Pillans | 4 | documented |
| Elegia marlothii | (Pillans) Moline & H.P.Linder | 4 | documented |
| Elegia grandis | (Spreng. ex Nees) Kunth | 3 | documented |
| Elegia acockii | (Pillans) Moline & H.P.Linder | 1 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia atratiflora | Esterh. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia caespitosa | Esterh. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia decipiens | (Esterh.) Moline & H.P.Linder | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia fastigata | Mast. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia fenestrata | Pillans | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia fucata | Esterh. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia grandispicata | H.P.Linder | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia intermedia | (Steud.) Pillans | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia namaquense | H.P.Linder & Helme | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia prominens | Pillans | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Elegia rigida | Mast. | 0 | below the evidence 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.