Gasteria

Accepted species 31 Documented here 10 Family Asphodelaceae

Accepted species 31 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
Gasteria acinacifolia (J.Jacq.) Haw. 39 documented
Gasteria brachyphylla (Salm-Dyck) van Jaarsv. 34 documented
Gasteria carinata (Mill.) Duval 15 documented
Gasteria bicolor Haw. 7 documented
Gasteria pillansii Kensit 6 documented
Gasteria polita van Jaarsv. 6 documented
Gasteria disticha (L.) Haw. 5 documented
Gasteria rawlinsonii Oberm. 5 documented
Gasteria excelsa Baker 3 documented
Gasteria vlokii van Jaarsv. 3 documented
Gasteria batesiana G.D.Rowley 1 below the evidence gate
Gasteria nitida (Salm-Dyck) Haw. 1 below the evidence gate
Gasteria × kewensis A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria × lauchei (Radl) A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria × margaritifera A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria barbae van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria baylissiana Rauh 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria croucheri (Hook.f.) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria doreeniae van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria ellaphieae van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria glauca van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria glomerata van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria koenii Van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria loedolffiae van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria minima Poelln. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria obliqua (Aiton) Duval 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria pendulifolia van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria poellnitziana Jacobs. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria pseudonigricans Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria pulchra (Aiton) Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Gasteria tukhelensis van Jaarsv. 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.