Lachnaea

Accepted species 40 Documented here 26 Family Thymelaeaceae

Accepted species 40 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
Lachnaea grandiflora (L.f.) Baill. 369 documented
Lachnaea diosmoides Meisn. 204 documented
Lachnaea aurea Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Meisn. 134 documented
Lachnaea densiflora Meisn. 133 documented
Lachnaea axillaris Meisn. 78 documented
Lachnaea burchellii Meisn. 59 documented
Lachnaea filamentosa Meisn. 52 documented
Lachnaea capitata (L.) Crantz 35 documented
Lachnaea filicaulis (Meisn.) Beyers 29 documented
Lachnaea uniflora (L.) Crantz 22 documented
Lachnaea greytonensis Beyers 21 documented
Lachnaea pomposa Beyers 21 documented
Lachnaea laniflora (C.H.Wright) Bond 20 documented
Lachnaea ericoides Meisn. 17 documented
Lachnaea ruscifolia Compton 17 documented
Lachnaea naviculifolia Compton 15 documented
Lachnaea elsieae Beyers 12 documented
Lachnaea pudens Beyers 12 documented
Lachnaea montana Beyers 11 documented
Lachnaea pusilla Beyers 9 documented
Lachnaea penicillata Meisn. 8 documented
Lachnaea eriocephala L. 7 documented
Lachnaea nervosa (Thunb.) Meisn. 5 documented
Lachnaea sociorum Beyers 4 documented
Lachnaea villosa Beyers 4 documented
Lachnaea globulifera Meisn. 3 documented
Lachnaea glomerata Fourc. 2 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea gracilis Meisn. 2 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea alpina Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea funicaulis Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea laxa (C.H.Wright) Beyers 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea leipoldtii Beyers 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea macrantha Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea marlothii Schltr. 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea oliverorum Beyers 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea pedicellata Beyers 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea pendula Beyers 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea rupestris Beyers 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea stokoei Beyers 0 below the evidence gate
Lachnaea striata (Lam.) Meisn. 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.