Encephalartos

Accepted species 68 Documented here 7 Family Zamiaceae

Accepted species 68 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
Encephalartos longifolius (Jacq.) Lehm. 30 documented
Encephalartos natalensis R.A.Dyer & I.Verd. 28 documented
Encephalartos villosus Lem. 27 documented
Encephalartos altensteinii Lehm. 15 documented
Encephalartos transvenosus Stapf & Burtt Davy 4 documented
Encephalartos ghellinckii Lem. 3 documented
Encephalartos horridus (Jacq.) Lehm. 3 documented
Encephalartos lehmannii Lehm. 3 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos trispinosus (Hook.) R.A.Dyer 2 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi Lehm. 1 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos humilis I.Verd. 1 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos senticosus Vorster 1 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos aemulans Vorster 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos afer (Thunb.) Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos aplanatus Vorster 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos arenarius R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos barteri Carruth. ex Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos brevifoliolatus Vorster 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos bubalinus Melville 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos cerinus Lavranos & D.L.Goode 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos chimanimaniensis R.A.Dyer & I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos concinnus R.A.Dyer & I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos cupidus R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos cycadifolius (Jacq.) Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos delucanus Malaisse, J.P.Sclavo & C.Crosiers 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos dolomiticus Lavranos & D.L.Goode 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos dyerianus Lavranos & D.L.Goode 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos equatorialis P.J.H.Hurter 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos eugene-maraisii I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos ferox G.Bertol. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos gratus Prain 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos heenanii R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos hildebrandtii A.Braun & C.D.Bouché 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos hirsutus P.J.H.Hurter 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos inopinus R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos ituriensis Bamps & Lisowski 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos kisambo Faden & Beentje 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos laevifolius Stapf & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos lanatus Stapf & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos latifrons Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos laurentianus De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos lebomboensis I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos mackenziei L.E.Newton 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos macrostrobilus Scott Jones & J.Wynants 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos manikensis (Gilliland) Gilliland 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos marunguensis Devred 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos middelburgensis Vorster, Robbertse & S.van der Westh. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos msinganus Vorster 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos munchii R.A.Dyer & I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos ngoyanus I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos nubimontanus P.J.H.Hurter 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos paucidentatus Stapf & Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos poggei Asch. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos princeps R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos pterogonus R.A.Dyer & I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos relictus P.J.H.Hurter 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos schaijesii Malaisse, J.P.Sclavo & C.Crosiers 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos schmitzii Malaisse 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos sclavoi De Luca, D.W.Stev. & A.Moretti 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos sclavoi A.Moretti, D.W.Stev. & De Luca 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. ex Eichl. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos septentrionalis Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos spinulosus Lehm. 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos tegulaneus Melville 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos turneri Lavranos & D.Goode 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos umbeluziensis R.A.Dyer 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos whitelockii P.J.H.Hurter 0 below the evidence gate
Encephalartos woodii Sander 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.