Protea

Accepted species 110 Documented here 75 Family Proteaceae

Accepted species 110 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
Protea repens (L.) L. 2,148 documented
Protea nitida Mill. 1,681 documented
Protea cynaroides (L.) L. 1,482 documented
Protea laurifolia Thunb. 1,024 documented
Protea neriifolia R.Br. 1,013 documented
Protea lepidocarpodendron L. 925 documented
Protea acaulos (L.) Reichard 514 documented
Protea eximia (Knight) Fourc. 447 documented
Protea lorifolia (Knight) Fourc. 388 documented
Protea speciosa L. 384 documented
Protea compacta R.Br. 359 documented
Protea scolymocephala (L.) Reichard 353 documented
Protea scabra R.Br. 345 documented
Protea longifolia Andrews 337 documented
Protea coronata Lam. 332 documented
Protea punctata Meisn. 326 documented
Protea glabra Thunb. 278 documented
Protea obtusifolia De Wild. 255 documented
Protea obtusifolia H.Buek ex Meisn. 255 documented
Protea susannae E.Phillips 238 documented
Protea aspera E.Phillips 185 documented
Protea mundii Klotzsch 182 documented
Protea scolopendriifolia (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 181 documented
Protea burchellii Stapf 180 documented
Protea grandiceps Tratt. 175 documented
Protea cordata Thunb. 172 documented
Protea amplexicaulis (Salisb.) R.Br. 170 documented
Protea montana E.Mey. ex Meisn. 168 documented
Protea magnifica Andrews 148 documented
Protea subulifolia (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 146 documented
Protea welwitschii Engl. 133 documented
Protea venusta Compton 122 documented
Protea lanceolata E.Mey. ex Meisn. 121 documented
Protea laevis R.Br. 119 documented
Protea scorzonerifolia (Salisb. ex Knight) Rycroft 118 documented
Protea subvestita N.E.Br. 110 documented
Protea simplex E.Phillips 88 documented
Protea gaguedi J.F.Gmel. 80 documented
Protea effusa E.Mey. ex Meisn. 68 documented
Protea lorea R.Br. 68 documented
Protea canaliculata Andrews 67 documented
Protea cryophila Bolus 67 documented
Protea lacticolor Salisb. 67 documented
Protea vogtsiae Rourke 67 documented
Protea acuminata Sims 60 documented
Protea witzenbergiana E.Phillips 60 documented
Protea nana (P.J.Bergius) Thunb. 55 documented
Protea humiflora Andrews 49 documented
Protea odorata Thunb. 49 documented
Protea recondita H.Buek ex Meisn. 49 documented
Protea rupicola Mund Ex Meisn. 49 documented
Protea angustata R.Br. 48 documented
Protea pendula R.Br. 48 documented
Protea piscina Rourke 48 documented
Protea laetans L.E.Davidson 47 documented
Protea sulphurea E.Phillips 47 documented
Protea stokoei E.Phillips 41 documented
Protea tenax (Salisb.) R.Br. 37 documented
Protea pudens Rourke 36 documented
Protea dracomontana Beard 32 documented
Protea restionifolia (Salisb. ex Knight) Rycroft 31 documented
Protea scabriuscula E.Phillips 28 documented
Protea caespitosa Andrews 26 documented
Protea pruinosa Rourke 22 documented
Protea denticulata Rourke 18 documented
Protea aristata E.Phillips 17 documented
Protea parvula Beard 13 documented
Protea decurrens E.Phillips 12 documented
Protea foliosa Rourke 10 documented
Protea mucronifolia J.Lee & J.Kenn. ex Salisb. 10 documented
Protea revoluta R.Br. 10 documented
Protea comptonii Beard 9 documented
Protea intonsa Rourke 9 documented
Protea angolensis Welw. 6 documented
Protea namaquana Rourke 6 documented
Protea madiensis Oliv. 2 below the evidence gate
Protea pityphylla E.Phillips 2 below the evidence gate
Protea afra Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea argyrea Hauman 0 below the evidence gate
Protea asymmetrica Beard 0 below the evidence gate
Protea aurea (Burm.f.) Rourke 0 below the evidence gate
Protea baumii Engl. & Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Protea convexa E.Phillips 0 below the evidence gate
Protea curvata N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea dekindtiana Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea enervis Wild 0 below the evidence gate
Protea flavopilosa Beard 0 below the evidence gate
Protea heckmanniana Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea holosericea (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 0 below the evidence gate
Protea humifusa hort. ex Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea inopina Rourke 0 below the evidence gate
Protea kibarensis Hauman 0 below the evidence gate
Protea leucoblepharis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Protea linearifolia Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea mafingensis (Chisumpa & Brummitt) Beard 0 below the evidence gate
Protea matonchiana Chisumpa & Brummitt 0 below the evidence gate
Protea micans Welw. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea minima Hauman 0 below the evidence gate
Protea nubigena Rourke 0 below the evidence gate
Protea ongotium Beard 0 below the evidence gate
Protea paludosa (Hiern) Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea petiolaris (Hiern) Baker & C.H.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Protea poggei Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea praticola Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea roupelliae Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea rubrobracteata Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea rubropilosa Beard 0 below the evidence gate
Protea rupestris R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Protea scolopendriifolium (Salisb. ex Knight) Rourke 0 below the evidence gate
Protea wentzeliana Engl. 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.