Lessertia

Accepted species 63 Documented here 19 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 63 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
Lessertia frutescens (L.) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 414 documented
Lessertia miniata T.M.Salter 66 documented
Lessertia annularis Burch. 49 documented
Lessertia capensis (P.J.Bergius) Druce 44 documented
Lessertia canescens Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 39 documented
Lessertia diffusa R.Br. 29 documented
Lessertia lanata Harv. 15 documented
Lessertia benguellensis Baker 12 documented
Lessertia perennans (Jacq.) DC. 11 documented
Lessertia spinescens E.Mey. 10 documented
Lessertia pauciflora Harv. 8 documented
Lessertia herbacea (L.) Druce 6 documented
Lessertia brachystachya DC. 5 documented
Lessertia capitata E.Mey. 5 documented
Lessertia falciformis DC. 5 documented
Lessertia margaritacea E.Mey. 5 documented
Lessertia meyeri Boatwr., Nkonki & B.-E.van Wyk 5 documented
Lessertia inflata Harv. 3 documented
Lessertia stricta Bolus 3 documented
Lessertia candida E.Mey. 2 below the evidence gate
Lessertia obtusata (Thunb.) DC. 2 below the evidence gate
Lessertia villosa E.Mey. 2 below the evidence gate
Lessertia acanthorhachis (Dinter) Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia affinis Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia amajubica Nkonki 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia brachypus Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia carnosa Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia contracta M.Balkwill 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia cryptantha Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia depressa Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia distans Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia dykei L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia emarginata Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia eremicola Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia excisa (Thunb.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia flanaganii L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia flexuosa E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia fruticosa Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia glabricaulis L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia globosa L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia harveyana L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia humilis (E.Phillips & R.A.Dyer) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia incana Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia ingeliensis M.Balkwill 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia kensitii L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia macroflora M.Balkwill 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia macrostachya DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia microcarpa E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia montana (E.Phillips & R.A.Dyer) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia mossii R.G.N.Young 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia nana R.G.N.Young 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia pappeana Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia phillipsiana Burtt Davy 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia physodes Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia prostrata (Thunb.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia rigida (Thunb.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia sneeuwbergensis Germish. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia subumbellata Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia sulcata E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia tenuifolia E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia thodei L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia tomentosa (Thunb.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Lessertia uniflora B.-E.van Wyk 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.