Hesperantha

Accepted species 89 Documented here 18 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 89 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
Hesperantha coccinea (Backh. & Harv.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 161 documented
Hesperantha falcata (L.f.) Ker Gawl. 118 documented
Hesperantha pauciflora G.J.Lewis 99 documented
Hesperantha cucullata Klatt 80 documented
Hesperantha radiata (Jacq.) Ker Gawl. 75 documented
Hesperantha bachmannii Baker 58 documented
Hesperantha baurii Baker 48 documented
Hesperantha vaginata (Sweet) Goldblatt 47 documented
Hesperantha scopulosa Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 20 documented
Hesperantha pilosa (L.f.) Ker Gawl. 12 documented
Hesperantha candida Baker 9 documented
Hesperantha humilis Baker 9 documented
Hesperantha luticola Goldblatt 9 documented
Hesperantha grandiflora G.J.Lewis 8 documented
Hesperantha fibrosa Baker 7 documented
Hesperantha lactea Baker 7 documented
Hesperantha lithicola J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 6 documented
Hesperantha hygrophila Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 5 documented
Hesperantha brevicaulis (Baker) G.J.Lewis 2 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha marlothii R.C.Foster 2 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha spicata (Burm.f.) N.E.Br. 2 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha woodii Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha acuta (Licht. ex Roem. & Schult.) Ker Gawl. 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha alborosea Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha altimontana Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha ballii Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha brevifolia Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha brevistyla Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha bulbifera Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha cedarmontana Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha crocopsis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha curvula Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha debilis Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha decipiens Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha dolomitica Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha elsiae Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha erecta (Baker) Benth. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha eremophila Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha exiliflora Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha filiformis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha flava G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha flexuosa Klatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha glabrescens Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha glareosa Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha gracilis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha hantamensis Schltr. ex R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha helmei Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha hutchingsiae Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha huttonii (Baker) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha inconspicua (Baker) Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha ingeliensis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha juncifolia Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha karooica Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha kiaratayloriae Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha latifolia Spreng. ex Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha laxifolia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha leucantha Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha longicollis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha longistyla J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha longituba (Klatt) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha malvina Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha minima (Baker) R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha modesta Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha montigena Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha mtamvunae Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha muirii (L.Bolus) G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha namaquana Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha oligantha (Diels) Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha pallescens Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha palustris Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha petitiana (A.Rich.) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha pseudopilosa Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha pubinervia Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha pulchra Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha purpurea Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha quadrangula Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha rivulicola Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha rupestris N.E.Br. ex R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha rupicola Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha saldanhae Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha saxicola Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha schelpeana Hilliard & B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha schlechteri (Baker) R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha secunda Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha stenosiphon Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha sufflava Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha teretifolia Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha truncatula Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Hesperantha umbricola Goldblatt 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.