Mimetes

Accepted species 20 Documented here 13 Family Proteaceae

Accepted species 20 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
Mimetes cucullatus (L.) R.Br. 1,085 documented
Mimetes fimbriifolius Knight 611 documented
Mimetes hirtus (L.) Knight 262 documented
Mimetes pauciflorus R.Br. 180 documented
Mimetes chrysanthus Rourke 120 documented
Mimetes saxatilis E.Phillips 103 documented
Mimetes capitulatus R.Br. 59 documented
Mimetes argenteus Knight 57 documented
Mimetes splendidus Knight 19 documented
Mimetes palustris Knight 15 documented
Mimetes arboreus Rourke 9 documented
Mimetes stokoei E.Phillips & Hutch. 5 documented
Mimetes hottentoticus E.Phillips & Hutch. 3 documented
Mimetes capitulata R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Mimetes cucullata (L.) R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Mimetes fimbriifolia Knight 0 below the evidence gate
Mimetes hottentotica E.Phillips & Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Mimetes pauciflora R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Mimetes purpureus R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Mimetes splendida Knight 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.