Isolepis

Accepted species 71 Documented here 28 Family Cyperaceae

Accepted species 71 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
Isolepis cernua (Vahl) Roem. & Schult. 731 documented
Isolepis prolifera (Rottb.) R.Br. 266 documented
Isolepis digitata Nees ex Schrad. 187 documented
Isolepis basilaris Hook.f. 86 documented
Isolepis levynsiana Muasya & D.A.Simpson 61 documented
Isolepis marginata (Thunb.) A.Dietr. 51 documented
Isolepis inundata R.Br. 37 documented
Isolepis setacea (L.) R.Br. 37 documented
Isolepis reticularis Colenso 31 documented
Isolepis hystrix (Thunb.) Nees 27 documented
Isolepis carinata Hook. & Arn. ex Torr. 24 documented
Isolepis sepulcralis Steud. 24 documented
Isolepis diabolica (Steud.) Schrad. 23 documented
Isolepis fluitans (L.) R.Br. 22 documented
Isolepis rubicunda Kunth 20 documented
Isolepis ludwigii (Steud.) Kunth 19 documented
Isolepis antarctica (L.) Roem. & Schult. 12 documented
Isolepis distigmatosa (C.B.Clarke) Edgar 10 documented
Isolepis natans (Thunb.) A.Dietr. 10 documented
Isolepis striata (Nees) Kunth 10 documented
Isolepis costata Hochst. ex A.Rich. 9 documented
Isolepis pseudosetacea (Daveau) Gand. 5 documented
Isolepis pusilla Kunth 5 documented
Isolepis sororia Kunth 5 documented
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f. 3 documented
Isolepis habra (Edgar) Soják 3 documented
Isolepis pottsii (V.J.Cook) Soják 3 documented
Isolepis tenuissima (Nees) Kunth 3 documented
Isolepis trachysperma Nees 2 below the evidence gate
Isolepis crassiuscula Hook.f. 1 below the evidence gate
Isolepis montivaga (S.T.Blake) K.L.Wilson 1 below the evidence gate
Isolepis alpina Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis angelica B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis australiensis (Maiden & Betche) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis beccarii (Boeckeler) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis bicolor Carmich. 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis brevicaulis (Levyns) J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis bulbifera (Boeckeler) Muasya 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis caligenis (V.J.Cook) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis congrua Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis cyperoides R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis expallescens Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis gaudichaudiana Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis graminoides (R.W.Haines & Lye) Lye 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis humbertii (Cherm.) J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis inconspicua (Levyns) J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis karroica (C.B.Clarke) J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis keniaensis Lye 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis kilimanjarica R.W.Haines & Lye 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis leptostachya Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis limbata W.M.Curtis 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis moseleyana (Boeckeler) Muasya 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis multicaulis Schltdl. 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis namaquana Muasya & J.Viljoen 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis nigricans Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis oldfieldiana (S.T.Blake) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis omissa J.Raynal 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis pellocolea B.L.Burtt 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis praetextata (Edgar) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis producta (C.B.Clarke) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis ranko (Steud.) Vegetti 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis ruwenzoriensis R.W.Haines & Lye 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis stellata (C.B.Clarke) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis subtilissima Boeckeler 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis sulcata (Thouars) Carmich. 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis tasmanica (S.T.Blake) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis varians Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis venustula Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis verrucosula (Steud.) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis victoriensis (N.A.Wakef.) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Isolepis wakefieldiana (S.T.Blake) K.L.Wilson 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.