Lachenalia

Accepted species 134 Documented here 73 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 134 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
Lachenalia orchioides (L.) Aiton 244 documented
Lachenalia pallida Aiton 239 documented
Lachenalia bulbifera (Cirillo) Engl. 184 documented
Lachenalia punctata Jacq. 135 documented
Lachenalia mutabilis G.Lodd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. 124 documented
Lachenalia reflexa Thunb. 118 documented
Lachenalia lutea G.D.Duncan 112 documented
Lachenalia rosea Andrews 103 documented
Lachenalia unifolia Jacq. 99 documented
Lachenalia carnosa Baker 87 documented
Lachenalia fistulosa Baker 76 documented
Lachenalia membranacea (W.F.Barker) G.D.Duncan 66 documented
Lachenalia peersii Marloth ex W.F.Barker 55 documented
Lachenalia contaminata Aiton 53 documented
Lachenalia longibracteata E.Phillips 45 documented
Lachenalia violacea Jacq. 44 documented
Lachenalia judithiae G.D.Duncan 42 documented
Lachenalia aurioliae G.D.Duncan 41 documented
Lachenalia obscura Schltr. ex G.D.Duncan 41 documented
Lachenalia aloides (L.f.) Engl. 40 documented
Lachenalia ensifolia (Thunb.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 40 documented
Lachenalia salteri W.F.Barker 39 documented
Lachenalia youngii Baker 39 documented
Lachenalia luteola Jacq. 37 documented
Lachenalia mediana Jacq. 37 documented
Lachenalia montana Schltr. ex W.F.Barker 36 documented
Lachenalia algoensis Schönland 30 documented
Lachenalia patentissima G.D.Duncan 30 documented
Lachenalia capensis W.F.Barker 29 documented
Lachenalia undulata Masson ex Baker 29 documented
Lachenalia variegata W.F.Barker 29 documented
Lachenalia elegans W.F.Barker 28 documented
Lachenalia suaveolens (W.F.Barker) G.D.Duncan 28 documented
Lachenalia trichophylla Baker 24 documented
Lachenalia juncifolia Baker 21 documented
Lachenalia bolusii W.F.Barker 16 documented
Lachenalia alba W.F.Barker ex G.D.Duncan 15 documented
Lachenalia framesii W.F.Barker 14 documented
Lachenalia nardousbergensis G.D.Duncan 14 documented
Lachenalia splendida Diels 14 documented
Lachenalia ventricosa Schltr. ex W.F.Barker 14 documented
Lachenalia anguinea Sweet 12 documented
Lachenalia neilii W.F.Barker ex G.D.Duncan 12 documented
Lachenalia congesta W.F.Barker 11 documented
Lachenalia hirta (Thunb.) Thunb. 10 documented
Lachenalia cernua G.D.Duncan 9 documented
Lachenalia haarlemensis Fourc. 9 documented
Lachenalia mathewsii W.F.Barker 9 documented
Lachenalia polyphylla Baker 9 documented
Lachenalia vanzyliae (W.F.Barker) G.D.Duncan & T.J.Edwards 9 documented
Lachenalia namaquensis W.F.Barker 8 documented
Lachenalia comptonii W.F.Barker 7 documented
Lachenalia flava Andrews 7 documented
Lachenalia marginata W.F.Barker 7 documented
Lachenalia patula Jacq. 7 documented
Lachenalia attenuata W.F.Barker ex G.D.Duncan 6 documented
Lachenalia inconspicua G.D.Duncan 6 documented
Lachenalia lutzeyeri G.D.Duncan 6 documented
Lachenalia sessiliflora Andrews 6 documented
Lachenalia canaliculata G.D.Duncan 5 documented
Lachenalia corymbosa (L.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 5 documented
Lachenalia karooica W.F.Barker ex G.D.Duncan 5 documented
Lachenalia schlechteri Baker 5 documented
Lachenalia bachmannii Baker 4 documented
Lachenalia moniliformis W.F.Barker 4 documented
Lachenalia pusilla Jacq. 4 documented
Lachenalia stayneri W.F.Barker 4 documented
Lachenalia whitehillensis W.F.Barker 4 documented
Lachenalia doleritica G.D.Duncan 3 documented
Lachenalia glauca (W.F.Barker) G.D.Duncan 3 documented
Lachenalia nervosa Ker Gawl. 3 documented
Lachenalia paucifolia (W.F.Barker) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 3 documented
Lachenalia xerophila Schltr. ex G.D.Duncan 3 documented
Lachenalia orthopetala Jacq. 2 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia perryae G.D.Duncan 2 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia klinghardtiana Dinter 1 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia pygmaea (Jacq.) G.D.Duncan 1 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia viridiflora W.F.Barker 1 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia adamii G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia ameliae W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia angelica W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia arbuthnotiae W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia arenicola G.D.Duncan & Helme 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia argillicola G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia barbarae G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia barkeriana U.Müll.-Doblies, B.Nord. & D.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia bowkeri Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia bruynsii G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia buchubergensis Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia calcicola (U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies) G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia callista G.D.Duncan & T.J.Edwards 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia campanulata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia concordiana Schltr. ex W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia convallarioides Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia dasybotrya Diels 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia dehoopensis W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia duncanii W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia giessii W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia glaucophylla W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia isopetala Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia karoopoortensis G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia kliprandensis W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia krugeri G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia lactosa G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia latimerae W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia leipoldtii G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia leomontana W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia liliflora Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia longituba (A.M.van der Merwe) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia macgregoriorum W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia magentea G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia margaretae W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia marlothii W.F.Barker ex G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia martinae W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia martleyi G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia maximiliani Schltr. ex W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia minima W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia multifolia W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia namibiensis W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia nutans G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia pearsonii (R.Glover) W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia physocaulos W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia polypodantha Schltr. ex W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia purpureocoerulea Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia sargeantii W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia schelpei W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia summerfieldii G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia thomasiae W.F.Barker ex G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia thunbergii G.D.Duncan & T.J.Edwards 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia valeriae G.D.Duncan 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia verticillata W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia wrightii Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia zebrina W.F.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Lachenalia zeyheri Baker 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.