Gibbaeum

Accepted species 18 Documented here 6 Family Aizoaceae

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
Gibbaeum heathii (N.E.Br.) L.Bolus 43 documented
Gibbaeum nuciforme (Haw.) Glen & H.E.K.Hartmann 28 documented
Gibbaeum hartmannianum Thiede & Niesler 26 documented
Gibbaeum petrense (N.E.Br.) Tischer 8 documented
Gibbaeum pubescens (Haw.) N.E.Br. 6 documented
Gibbaeum album N.E.Br. 3 documented
Gibbaeum hortenseae (N.E.Br.) Thiede & Klak 2 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum dispar N.E.Br. 1 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum angulipes (L.Bolus) N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum esterhuyseniae L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum geminum N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum gibbosum (Haw.) N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum ihlenfeldtii Thiede 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum nebrownii Tischer 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum pachypodium (Kensit) L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum schwantesii Tischer 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum shandii (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Gibbaeum velutinum (L.Bolus) Schwantes 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.