Patersonia

Accepted species 26 Documented here 6 Family Iridaceae

Accepted species 26 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
Patersonia sericea R.Br. 253 documented
Patersonia glabrata R.Br. 142 documented
Patersonia fragilis (Labill.) Asch. & Graebn. 73 documented
Patersonia occidentalis R.Br. 41 documented
Patersonia umbrosa Endl. 7 documented
Patersonia juncea Lindl. 5 documented
Patersonia pygmaea Lindl. 1 below the evidence gate
Patersonia argyrea D.A.Cooke 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia babianoides Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia borneensis Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia drummondii F.Muell. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia graminea Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia inaequalis Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia inflexa Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia lanata R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia limbata Endl. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia lowii Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia macrantha Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia maxwellii (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia neocaledonica Goldblatt & J.C.Manning 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia novoguineensis Gibbs 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia philippinensis Goldblatt 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia rosea Branwhite 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia rudis Endl. 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia spirafolia Keighery 0 below the evidence gate
Patersonia sumatrensis Goldblatt 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.