Heliophila

Accepted species 101 Documented here 56 Family Brassicaceae

Accepted species 101 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
Heliophila subulata Burch. ex DC. 320 documented
Heliophila juncea Druce 255 documented
Heliophila africana (L.) Marais 207 documented
Heliophila carnosa (Thunb.) Steud. 169 documented
Heliophila suavissima Burch. ex DC. 158 documented
Heliophila variabilis Burch. ex DC. 156 documented
Heliophila coronopifolia L. 148 documented
Heliophila pendula Willd. 141 documented
Heliophila rigidiuscula Sond. 107 documented
Heliophila elongata DC. 105 documented
Heliophila glauca Burch. ex DC. 102 documented
Heliophila linearis DC. 99 documented
Heliophila crithmifolia Willd. 91 documented
Heliophila meyeri Sond. 91 documented
Heliophila pinnata L.f. 86 documented
Heliophila amplexicaulis L.f. 74 documented
Heliophila scoparia Burch. ex DC. 74 documented
Heliophila lactea Schltr. 55 documented
Heliophila trifurca Burch. ex DC. 43 documented
Heliophila concatenata Sond. 38 documented
Heliophila linoides Schltr. 29 documented
Heliophila adpressa O.E.Schulz 27 documented
Heliophila arenosa Schltr. 24 documented
Heliophila cinerea Marais 24 documented
Heliophila macra Schltr. 23 documented
Heliophila collina O.E.Schulz 21 documented
Heliophila minima (Stephens) Marais 21 documented
Heliophila acuminata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Steud. 19 documented
Heliophila pusilla L.f. 19 documented
Heliophila pubescens Burch. 16 documented
Heliophila pubescens Burch. ex Sond. 16 documented
Heliophila callosa DC. 15 documented
Heliophila seselifolia Burch. ex DC. 15 documented
Heliophila leptophylla Schltr. 14 documented
Heliophila bulbostyla P.E.Barnes 13 documented
Heliophila schulzii Marais 12 documented
Heliophila suborbicularis Al-Shehbaz & Mumm. 12 documented
Heliophila goldblattii Al-Shehbaz 11 documented
Heliophila macowaniana Schltr. 11 documented
Heliophila digitata L.f. 10 documented
Heliophila dregeana Sond. 9 documented
Heliophila cedarbergensis Marais 8 documented
Heliophila cornuta Sond. 7 documented
Heliophila florulenta Sond. 7 documented
Heliophila crassistyla Al-Shehbaz 6 documented
Heliophila nubigena Schltr. 6 documented
Heliophila pectinata Burch. 6 documented
Heliophila clarkii Al-Shehbaz 5 documented
Heliophila decurva Schltr. 5 documented
Heliophila pseudoeximia Al-Shehbaz 5 documented
Heliophila arenaria Sond. 4 documented
Heliophila maraisiana Al-Shehbaz & Mumm. 4 documented
Heliophila agtertuinensis (O.E.Schulz) Al-Shehbaz 3 documented
Heliophila diffusa DC. 3 documented
Heliophila elata Sond. 3 documented
Heliophila minor (Marais) Al-Shehbaz 3 documented
Heliophila laciniata Marais 2 below the evidence gate
Heliophila monosperma Al-Shehbaz & Mumm. 2 below the evidence gate
Heliophila promontorii Marais 2 below the evidence gate
Heliophila refracta Sond. 2 below the evidence gate
Heliophila roggeveldensis Al-Shehbaz 2 below the evidence gate
Heliophila xylopoda Al-Shehbaz 2 below the evidence gate
Heliophila affinis Sond. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila alpina Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila astyla Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila biseriata Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila brachycarpa Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila brassicaefolia Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila brassicifolia Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila cornellsbergia B.J.Pienaar & Nicholas 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila cuneata Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila descurva Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila deserticola Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila ephemera P.A.Bean 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila esterhuyseniae Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila eximia Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila filicaulis Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila formosa Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila gariepina Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila glabrescens (O.E.Schulz) Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila hurkana Al-Shehbaz & Mumm. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila integrifolia L. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila katbergensis Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila latisiliqua E.Mey. ex Sond. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila macrosperma Burch. ex DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila magaliesbergensis Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila namaquana Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila namaquensis (Marais) Al-Shehbaz & Mumm. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila obibensis Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila patens Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila polygaloides Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila ramosissima O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila remotiflora O.E.Schulz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila rimicola Marais 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila scabrida Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila scandens Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila tabularis Wolley-Dod 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila tricuspidata Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila tulbaghensis Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila verna Al-Shehbaz 0 below the evidence gate
Heliophila vlokii Al-Shehbaz 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.