Thamnochortus

Accepted species 34 Documented here 21 Family Restionaceae

Accepted species 34 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
Thamnochortus fruticosus P.J.Bergius 204 documented
Thamnochortus insignis Mast. 146 documented
Thamnochortus glaber (Mast.) Pillans 133 documented
Thamnochortus cinereus H.P.Linder 100 documented
Thamnochortus lucens (Poir.) H.P.Linder 81 documented
Thamnochortus punctatus Pillans 56 documented
Thamnochortus spicigerus R.Br. 46 documented
Thamnochortus rigidus Esterh. 44 documented
Thamnochortus erectus Mast. 33 documented
Thamnochortus bachmannii Mast. 31 documented
Thamnochortus fraternus Pillans 13 documented
Thamnochortus gracilis Mast. 12 documented
Thamnochortus acuminatus Pillans 10 documented
Thamnochortus guthrieae Pillans 9 documented
Thamnochortus sporadicus Pillans 9 documented
Thamnochortus pulcher Pillans 8 documented
Thamnochortus obtusus Pillans 6 documented
Thamnochortus papyraceus Pillans 6 documented
Thamnochortus platypteris Kunth 5 documented
Thamnochortus muirii Pillans 3 documented
Thamnochortus nutans (Thunb.) Pillans 3 documented
Thamnochortus pellucidus Pillans 3 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus levynsiae Pillans 2 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus paniculatus Mast. 2 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus amoena H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus arenarius Esterh. 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus dumosus Mast. 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus ellipticus Pillans 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus kammanassiae H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus karooica H.P.Linder 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus pluristachyus Mast. 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus scabridus Pillans 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus schlechteri Pillans 0 below the evidence gate
Thamnochortus stokoei Pillans 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.