Lapeirousia

Accepted species 28 Documented here 13 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 28 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
Lapeirousia jacquinii N.E.Br. 152 documented
Lapeirousia silenoides (Jacq.) Ker Gawl. 137 documented
Lapeirousia anceps (L.f.) Ker Gawl. 98 documented
Lapeirousia oreogena Schltr. ex Goldblatt 56 documented
Lapeirousia fabricii (D.Delaroche) Ker Gawl. 53 documented
Lapeirousia divaricata Baker 44 documented
Lapeirousia arenicola Schltr. 29 documented
Lapeirousia pyramidalis (Lam.) Goldblatt 24 documented
Lapeirousia plicata (Jacq.) Diels 15 documented
Lapeirousia angustifolia Schltr. 10 documented
Lapeirousia violacea Goldblatt 6 documented
Lapeirousia montana Klatt 3 documented
Lapeirousia verecunda Goldblatt 3 documented
Lapeirousia macrospatha Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia odoratissima Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia spinosa (Goldblatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 2 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia tenuis (Goldblatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 2 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia barklyi Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia caudata Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia dolomitica Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia exilis Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia kalahariensis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia kamiesmontana Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia lewisiana B.Nord. 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia littoralis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia purpurascens Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia purpurea Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Lapeirousia simulans Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 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.