Massonia

Accepted species 29 Documented here 6 Family Asparagaceae

Accepted species 29 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
Massonia depressa Houtt. 163 documented
Massonia longipes Baker 72 documented
Massonia setulosa Baker 15 documented
Massonia pustulata Jacq. 14 documented
Massonia wittebergensis U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies 7 documented
Massonia bakeriana M.Pinter, Mart.-Azorín & Wetschnig 3 documented
Massonia jasminiflora Burch. ex Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Massonia obermeyerae Mart.-Azorín, A.P.Dold, M.Pinter & Wetschnig 2 below the evidence gate
Massonia pseudoechinata Mart.-Azorín, M.Pinter & Wetschnig 2 below the evidence gate
Massonia saniensis Wetschnig, Mart.-Azorín & M.Pinter 2 below the evidence gate
Massonia tenella Sol. ex Baker 2 below the evidence gate
Massonia latebrosa Masson ex Baker 1 below the evidence gate
Massonia pygmaea Schltdl. ex Kunth 1 below the evidence gate
Massonia angustifolia L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia calvata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia citrina M.Pinter, Deutsch, U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia echinata L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia etesionamibensis (U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia gypsicola Mart.-Azorín, M.Pinter, M.B.Crespo, M.Á.Alonso & Wetschnig 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia hirsuta Link & Otto 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia inaequalis W.F.Barker ex Mart.-Azorín, M.Pinter, M.B.Crespo, M.Á.Alonso & Wetschnig 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia luteovirens (Mart.-Azorín, M.Pinter & Wetschnig) J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia mimetica Mart.-Azorín, M.Pinter, M.B.Crespo & Wetschnig 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia roggeveldensis Mart.-Azorín, M.Pinter & Wetschnig 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia sempervirens U.Müll.-Doblies, G.Milkuhn & D.Müll.-Doblies 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia sessiliflora (Dinter) Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo, M.Pinter & Wetschnig 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia thunbergiana Wetschnig, Mart.-Azorín & M.Pinter 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia villosa J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Massonia visserae (P.E.Barnes) Mart.-Azorín, M.Pinter, M.B.Crespo, M.Á.Alonso & Wetschnig 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.