Gahnia

Accepted species 42 Documented here 19 Family Cyperaceae

Accepted species 42 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
Gahnia aspera (R.Br.) Spreng. 384 documented
Gahnia xanthocarpa (Hook.f.) Hook.f. 234 documented
Gahnia lacera (A.Rich.) Steud. 146 documented
Gahnia pauciflora Kirk 144 documented
Gahnia setifolia (A.Rich.) Hook.f. 125 documented
Gahnia sieberiana Kunth 97 documented
Gahnia procera J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. 57 documented
Gahnia tristis Nees 48 documented
Gahnia clarkei Benl 39 documented
Gahnia rigida Kirk 29 documented
Gahnia beecheyi H.Mann 22 documented
Gahnia radula (R.Br.) Benth. 16 documented
Gahnia filum (Labill.) F.Muell. 14 documented
Gahnia grandis (Labill.) S.T.Blake 9 documented
Gahnia erythrocarpa R.Br. 8 documented
Gahnia melanocarpa R.Br. 7 documented
Gahnia lanigera (R.Br.) Benth. 5 documented
Gahnia deusta (R.Br.) Benth. 4 documented
Gahnia trifida Labill. 3 documented
Gahnia javanica Moritzi 1 below the evidence gate
Gahnia ancistrophylla Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia aristata Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia australis (Nees) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia baniensis Benl 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia decomposita (R.Br.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia drummondii (Steud.) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia filifolia (C.Presl) Kük. ex Benl 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia halmaturina R.L.Barrett & K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia howeana R.O.Gardner 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia hystrix J.M.Black 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia insignis S.T.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia marquisensis F.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia media (R.Br.) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia microcarpa Guillaumin 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia microstachya Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia novocaledonensis Benl 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia rodwayi F.Muell. ex Rodway 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia schoenoides G.Forst. 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia sclerioides K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia sinuosa J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia subaequiglumis S.T.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Gahnia vitiensis Rendle 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.