Rafnia

Accepted species 30 Documented here 15 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 30 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
Rafnia acuminata (E.Mey.) G.J.Campb. & B.-E.van Wyk 215 documented
Rafnia amplexicaulis (L.) Thunb. 159 documented
Rafnia vlokii G.J.Campb. & B.-E.van Wyk 144 documented
Rafnia capensis (L.) Schinz 104 documented
Rafnia triflora Thunb. 78 documented
Rafnia crassifolia Harv. 63 documented
Rafnia elliptica Thunb. 55 documented
Rafnia angulata Thunb. 40 documented
Rafnia racemosa Eckl. & Zeyh. 23 documented
Rafnia globosa G.J.Campb. & B.-E.van Wyk 16 documented
Rafnia diffusa Thunb. 13 documented
Rafnia schlechteriana Schinz 9 documented
Rafnia alata G.J.Campb. & B.-E.van Wyk 7 documented
Rafnia cuneifolia Thunb. 7 documented
Rafnia spicata Thunb. 5 documented
Rafnia affinis Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia axillaris Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia crispa C.H.Stirt. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia ecklonis E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia erecta Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia gibba (E.Mey.) Druce 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia inaequalis G.J.Campb. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia lancea (Thunb.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia lancifolia C.Presl 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia lebeckioides Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia opposita Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia ovata E.Mey. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia retroflexa Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia rostrata G.J.Campb. & B.-E.van Wyk 0 below the evidence gate
Rafnia virens E.Mey. 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.