Leucospermum

Accepted species 48 Documented here 43 Family Proteaceae

Accepted species 48 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
Leucospermum cuneiforme (Burm.f.) Rourke 596 documented
Leucospermum cordifolium (Knight) Fourc. 569 documented
Leucospermum calligerum (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke. 413 documented
Leucospermum truncatulum (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 400 documented
Leucospermum oleifolium (P.J.Bergius) R.Br. 308 documented
Leucospermum patersonii E.Phillips 208 documented
Leucospermum prostratum (Thunb.) Stapf 208 documented
Leucospermum wittebergense Compton 190 documented
Leucospermum pedunculatum Klotzsch ex Krauss 187 documented
Leucospermum heterophyllum (Thunb.) Rourke 179 documented
Leucospermum praecox Rourke 164 documented
Leucospermum lineare R.Br. 160 documented
Leucospermum pluridens Rourke 138 documented
Leucospermum gracile (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 130 documented
Leucospermum gueinzii Meisn. 96 documented
Leucospermum truncatum (Meisn.) Rourke 91 documented
Leucospermum glabrum E.Phillips 90 documented
Leucospermum parile Knight ex Loudon 84 documented
Leucospermum praemorsum H.Buek ex Meisn. 78 documented
Leucospermum vestitum (Lam.) Rourke 67 documented
Leucospermum mundii Meisn. 59 documented
Leucospermum grandiflorum (Salisb.) R.Br. 57 documented
Leucospermum cordatum E.Phillips 55 documented
Leucospermum royenifolium (Salisb. ex Knight) Stapf 50 documented
Leucospermum bolusii Gand. 49 documented
Leucospermum catherinae Compton 45 documented
Leucospermum erubescens Rourke 44 documented
Leucospermum winteri Rourke 43 documented
Leucospermum rodolentum (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 37 documented
Leucospermum tomentosum (Thunb.) R.Br. 35 documented
Leucospermum reflexum H.Buek ex Meisn. 33 documented
Leucospermum gerrardii Stapf 27 documented
Leucospermum muirii E.Phillips 27 documented
Leucospermum harpagonatum Rourke 21 documented
Leucospermum formosum (Andrews) Knight ex Sweet 19 documented
Leucospermum saxatile (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 13 documented
Leucospermum conocarpodendron (L.) H.Buek 9 documented
Leucospermum secundifolium Rourke 8 documented
Leucospermum spathulatum R.Br. 8 documented
Leucospermum hamatum Rourke 6 documented
Leucospermum fulgens Rourke 5 documented
Leucospermum innovans Rourke 5 documented
Leucospermum utriculosum Rourke 4 documented
Leucospermum profugum Rourke 2 below the evidence gate
Leucospermum arenarium Rycroft 0 below the evidence gate
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron (L.) Druce 0 below the evidence gate
Leucospermum saxosum S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Leucospermum tottum (L.) R.Br. 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.