Ixia

Accepted species 100 Documented here 41 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 100 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
Ixia dubia Vent. 228 documented
Ixia rapunculoides Redouté 118 documented
Ixia monadelpha D.Delaroche 88 documented
Ixia micrandra Baker 84 documented
Ixia paniculata D.Delaroche 79 documented
Ixia orientalis L.Bolus 76 documented
Ixia scillaris L. 73 documented
Ixia stricta (Eckl. ex Klatt) G.J.Lewis 56 documented
Ixia flexuosa L. 47 documented
Ixia maculata L. 46 documented
Ixia odorata Ker Gawl. 42 documented
Ixia namaquana L.Bolus 24 documented
Ixia confusa (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 23 documented
Ixia helmei Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 22 documented
Ixia erubescens Goldblatt 19 documented
Ixia trifolia G.J.Lewis 18 documented
Ixia latifolia D.Delaroche 17 documented
Ixia ramulosa (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 17 documented
Ixia calendulacea Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 16 documented
Ixia purpureorosea G.J.Lewis 14 documented
Ixia paucifolia G.J.Lewis 13 documented
Ixia stolonifera G.J.Lewis 13 documented
Ixia versicolor G.J.Lewis 13 documented
Ixia capillaris L.f. 11 documented
Ixia metelerkampiae L.Bolus 11 documented
Ixia atrandra Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 9 documented
Ixia marginifolia G.J.Lewis 9 documented
Ixia fuscocitrina Desf. ex Redouté 8 documented
Ixia tenuifolia Vahl 8 documented
Ixia angelae Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 7 documented
Ixia curta Andrews 7 documented
Ixia macrocarpa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 7 documented
Ixia rivulicola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 7 documented
Ixia viridiflora Lam. 7 documented
Ixia campanulata Houtt. 5 documented
Ixia bifolia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 4 documented
Ixia brunneobractea G.J.Lewis 4 documented
Ixia esterhuyseniae M.P.de Vos 4 documented
Ixia pauciflora G.J.Lewis 4 documented
Ixia oxalidiflora Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 3 documented
Ixia stohriae L.Bolus 3 documented
Ixia stenophylla Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 2 below the evidence gate
Ixia exiliflora Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Ixia minor (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Ixia recondita Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Ixia sarmentosa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 1 below the evidence gate
Ixia vinacea G.J.Lewis 1 below the evidence gate
Ixia abbreviata Houtt. 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia acaulis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia alata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia alticola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia altissima Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia arenosa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia aurea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia bellendenii R.C.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia brevituba G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia cedarmontana Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia cochlearis G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia collina Goldblatt & Snijman 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia contorta Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia curvata G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia dieramoides Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia divaricata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia dolichosiphon Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia ecklonii Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia flagellaris Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia fucata Ker Gawl. 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia gloriosa G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia lacerata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia leipoldtii G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia leucantha Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia linderi Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia linearifolia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia longistylis (M.P.de Vos) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia longituba N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia mollis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia monticola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia mostertii M.P.de Vos 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia nutans Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia parva Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia patens Aiton 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia pavonia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia polystachya L. 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia pumilio Goldblatt & Snijman 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia reclinata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia rigida Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia robusta (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia roseoalba Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia rouxii G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia saundersiana Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia seracina Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia simulans Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia sobolifera Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia splendida G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia superba J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia tenuis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia teretifolia Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia thomasiae Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia trinervata (Baker) G.J.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Ixia vanzijliae L.Bolus 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.