Monsonia

Accepted species 27 Documented here 10 Family Geraniaceae

Accepted species 27 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
Monsonia speciosa L. 144 documented
Monsonia angustifolia E.Mey. 100 documented
Monsonia emarginata (L.f.) L'Hér. 82 documented
Monsonia attenuata Harv. & Sond. 44 documented
Monsonia spinosa L'Hér. 38 documented
Monsonia biflora DC. 23 documented
Monsonia umbellata Harv. 8 documented
Monsonia glauca R.Knuth 7 documented
Monsonia natalensis R.Knuth 5 documented
Monsonia brevirostrata R.Knuth 4 documented
Monsonia transvaalensis R.Knuth 2 below the evidence gate
Monsonia deserticola Dinter ex R.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia drudeana Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia galpinii Schltr. ex R.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia grandifolia R.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia heliotropoides Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia ignea Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia ignorata Merxm. & A.Schreib. 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia lanuginosa R.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia lavrani (Halda) C.C.Walker 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia longipes R.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia luederitziana Focke & Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia nivea (Decne.) Webb 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia parvifolia Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia praemorsa E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia senegalensis Guill. & Perr. 0 below the evidence gate
Monsonia trilobata Kers 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.