Metalasia

Accepted species 57 Documented here 43 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 57 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
Metalasia densa (Lam.) P.O.Karis 1,296 documented
Metalasia muricata (L.) D.Don 708 documented
Metalasia pungens D.Don 431 documented
Metalasia acuta P.O.Karis 224 documented
Metalasia trivialis P.O.Karis 170 documented
Metalasia erubescens DC. 162 documented
Metalasia pulchella (Cass.) P.O.Karis 144 documented
Metalasia compacta Zeyh. ex Sch.Bip. 134 documented
Metalasia pallida Bolus 121 documented
Metalasia massonii S.Moore 98 documented
Metalasia dregeana DC. 84 documented
Metalasia lichtensteinii Less. 78 documented
Metalasia brevifolia (Lam.) Levyns 67 documented
Metalasia inversa P.O.Karis 66 documented
Metalasia fastigiata (Thunb.) D.Don 53 documented
Metalasia luteola P.O.Karis 53 documented
Metalasia muraltiifolia DC. 46 documented
Metalasia octoflora DC. 46 documented
Metalasia cymbifolia Harv. 44 documented
Metalasia calcicola P.O.Karis 42 documented
Metalasia divergens (Thunb.) D.Don 38 documented
Metalasia aurea D.Don 35 documented
Metalasia strictifolia Bolus 33 documented
Metalasia galpinii L.Bolus 30 documented
Metalasia pulcherrima Less. 27 documented
Metalasia adunca Less. 25 documented
Metalasia quinqueflora DC. 24 documented
Metalasia cephalotes (Thunb.) Less. 23 documented
Metalasia serrata P.O.Karis 23 documented
Metalasia capitata (Lam.) Less. 20 documented
Metalasia montana P.O.Karis 15 documented
Metalasia tenuifolia DC. 15 documented
Metalasia bodkinii L.Bolus 11 documented
Metalasia schlechteri L.Bolus 11 documented
Metalasia tricolor Pillans 9 documented
Metalasia erectifolia Pillans 7 documented
Metalasia rhoderiodes T.M.Salter 7 documented
Metalasia serrulata P.O.Karis 7 documented
Metalasia phillipsii L.Bolus 6 documented
Metalasia riparia T.M.Salter 6 documented
Metalasia tenuis P.O.Karis 4 documented
Metalasia albescens P.O.Karis 3 documented
Metalasia umbelliformis P.O.Karis 3 documented
Metalasia namaquana P.O.Karis & Helme 1 below the evidence gate
Metalasia agathosmoides Pillans 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia alfredii Pillans 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia confusa Pillans 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia distans DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia eburnea Bengtson & P.O.Karis 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia formosa Bengtson & P.O.Karis 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia humilis P.O.Karis 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia juniperoides Pillans 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia oligocephala P.O.Karis 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia plicata P.O.Karis 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia rogersii S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia seriphiifolia DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Metalasia tristis Bengtson & P.O.Karis 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.