Lycoris

Accepted species 23 Documented here 4 Family Amaryllidaceae

Accepted species 23 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
Lycoris radiata (L'Hér.) Herb. 251 documented
Lycoris squamigera Maxim. 61 documented
Lycoris aurea (L'Hér.) Herb. 20 documented
Lycoris sanguinea Maxim. 10 documented
Lycoris traubii Hayward 2 below the evidence gate
Lycoris albiflora Koidz. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris anhuiensis Y.Hsu & G.J.Fan 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris argentea Worsley 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris caldwellii Traub 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris chejuensis K.Tae & S.C.Ko 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris chinensis Traub 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris flavescens M.Kim & S.Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris guangxiensis Y.Hsu & G.J.Fan 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris haywardii Traub 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris houdyshelii Traub 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris hunanensis M.H.Quan, L.J.Ou & C.W.She 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris incarnata Comes ex Sprenger 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris josephinae Traub 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris longituba Y.Hsu & G.J.Fan 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris rosea Traub & Moldenke 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris shaanxiensis Y.Hsu & Z.B.Hu 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris sprengeri Comes ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Lycoris straminea Lindl. 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.