Ferraria

Accepted species 18 Documented here 8 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 18 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
Ferraria crispa Burm. 239 documented
Ferraria variabilis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 96 documented
Ferraria ferrariola (Jacq.) Willd. 30 documented
Ferraria densepunctulata M.P.de Vos 21 documented
Ferraria divaricata Sweet 15 documented
Ferraria uncinata Sweet 15 documented
Ferraria foliosa G.J.Lewis 11 documented
Ferraria macrochlamys (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 7 documented
Ferraria brevifolia G.J.Lewis 2 below the evidence gate
Ferraria flava Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Ferraria glutinosa (Baker) Rendle 1 below the evidence gate
Ferraria candelabrum (Baker) Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Ferraria ornata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ferraria ovata (Thunb.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ferraria parva Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ferraria schaeferi Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Ferraria spithamaea (Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ferraria welwitschii Baker 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.