Eriocephalus

Accepted species 36 Documented here 18 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 36 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
Eriocephalus africanus L. 582 documented
Eriocephalus racemosus L. 130 documented
Eriocephalus ericoides (L.f.) Druce 61 documented
Eriocephalus tenuipes C.A.Sm. 37 documented
Eriocephalus capitellatus DC. 31 documented
Eriocephalus punctulatus DC. 28 documented
Eriocephalus eximius DC. 23 documented
Eriocephalus aromaticus C.A.Sm. 16 documented
Eriocephalus brevifolius (DC.) M.A.N.Müll. 16 documented
Eriocephalus karooicus M.A.N.Müll. 15 documented
Eriocephalus pedicellaris DC. 14 documented
Eriocephalus purpureus Burch. 7 documented
Eriocephalus grandiflorus M.A.N.Müll. 6 documented
Eriocephalus macroglossus B.Nord. 6 documented
Eriocephalus pauperrimus Merxm. & Eberle 6 documented
Eriocephalus dinteri S.Moore 4 documented
Eriocephalus microcephalus DC. 4 documented
Eriocephalus spinescens Burch. 3 documented
Eriocephalus merxmuelleri M.A.N.Müll. 2 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus ambiguus (DC.) M.A.N.Müll. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus aspalathoides DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus decussatus Burch. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus giessii M.A.N.Müll. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus glandulosus M.A.N.Müll. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus kingesii Merxm. & Eberle 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus klinghardtensis M.A.N.Müll. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus longifolius M.A.N.Müll. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus luederitzianus O.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus microphyllus DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus namaquensis M.A.N.Müll. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus pinnatus O.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus scariosus DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus septulifer DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus sericeus Gaudich. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus tenuifolius DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriocephalus tuberculosus DC. 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.