Pentameris

Accepted species 84 Documented here 20 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 84 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
Pentameris pallida (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder 115 documented
Pentameris curvifolia (Schrad.) Nees 74 documented
Pentameris eriostoma (Nees) Steud. 52 documented
Pentameris macrocalycina (Steud.) Schweick. 45 documented
Pentameris capensis (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder 35 documented
Pentameris thuarii P.Beauv. 29 documented
Pentameris colorata (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder 18 documented
Pentameris airoides (Nees) Steud. 15 documented
Pentameris densifolia (Nees) Steud. 11 documented
Pentameris aristidoides (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder 9 documented
Pentameris pungens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 6 documented
Pentameris aurea (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder 5 documented
Pentameris calcicola (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 5 documented
Pentameris montana (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 5 documented
Pentameris tortuosa (Trin.) Nees 5 documented
Pentameris horrida (Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder 4 documented
Pentameris andringitrensis (A.Camus) Galley & H.P.Linder 3 documented
Pentameris dregeana Stapf 3 documented
Pentameris malouinensis (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder 3 documented
Pentameris rigidissima (Pilg. ex H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 3 documented
Pentameris pholiuroides (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 2 below the evidence gate
Pentameris triseta (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder 2 below the evidence gate
Pentameris acinosa (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris alticola (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris ampla (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris argentea (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris aristifolia (Schweick.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris aspera (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris barbata (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris basutorum (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris borussica (K.Schum.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris capillaris (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris caulescens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris chippindalliae (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris chrysurus (K.Schum.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris cirrhosula Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris cirrhulosa (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris clavata (Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris densiflora Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris dentata (L.f.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris dolichochaeta (S.M.Phillips) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris ecklonii (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris elegans (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris ellisii H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris exserta (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris galpinii (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris glacialis N.P.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris glandulosa (Schrad.) Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris heptamera (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris heptameris Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris hirtiglumis N.P.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris holciformis (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris humbertii (A.Camus) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris insularis (Hemsl.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris lima (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris longiglumis (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris longipes (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris microphylla (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris minor (F.Ballard & C.E.Hubb.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris natalensis (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris oreodoxa (Schweick.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris oreophila N.P.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris pallescens (Schrad.) Nees 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris patula (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris pictigluma (Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris praecox (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris pseudopallescens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris pusilla (Nees) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris pyrophila (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris reflexa (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris rosea (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris rupestris (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris scabra (Nees) Steud. 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris scandens (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris setifolia (Thunb.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris swartbergensis N.P.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris tomentella (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris trifida (Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris trisetoides (Hochst. ex Steud.) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris tysonii (Stapf) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris uniflora N.P.Barker 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris velutina (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris veneta (H.P.Linder) Galley & H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Pentameris viscidula (Nees) Steud. 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.