Wurmbea

Accepted species 54 Documented here 18 Family Colchicaceae

Accepted species 54 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
Wurmbea dioica (R.Br.) F.Muell. 164 documented
Wurmbea punctata (L.) J.C.Manning & Vinn. 140 documented
Wurmbea variabilis B.Nord. 135 documented
Wurmbea stricta (Burm.f.) J.C.Manning & Vinn. 66 documented
Wurmbea recurva B.Nord. 44 documented
Wurmbea marginata (Desr.) B.Nord. 34 documented
Wurmbea spicata (Burm.f.) T.Durand & Schinz 26 documented
Wurmbea monopetala (L.f.) B.Nord. 25 documented
Wurmbea elatior B.Nord. 24 documented
Wurmbea inusta (Baker) B.Nord. 17 documented
Wurmbea kraussii Baker 14 documented
Wurmbea hiemalis B.Nord. 11 documented
Wurmbea uniflora (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl. 8 documented
Wurmbea australis (R.J.Bates) R.J.Bates 6 documented
Wurmbea cernua T.D.Macfarl. 6 documented
Wurmbea glassii (C.H.Wright) J.C.Manning & Vinn. 5 documented
Wurmbea tenella (Endl.) Benth. 4 documented
Wurmbea compacta B.Nord. 3 documented
Wurmbea drummondii Benth. 2 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea elongata B.Nord. 2 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea latifolia T.D.Macfarl. 2 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea stellata R.J.Bates 2 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea monantha (Endl.) T.D.Macfarl. 1 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea sinora T.D.Macfarl. 1 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea angustifolia B.Nord. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea biglandulosa (R.Br.) T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea burrowsii Oosth. & K.Balkwill 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea burttii B.Nord. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea calcicola T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea capensis Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea centralis T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea citrina (R.J.Bates) R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea decumbens R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea densiflora (Benth.) T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea deserticola T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea dilatata T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea dolichantha B.Nord. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea flavanthera T.D.Macfarl., A.P.Br. & C.J.French 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea fluviatilis T.D.Macfarl. & A.L.Case 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea graniticola T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea inflata T.D.Macfarl. & A.L.Case 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea inframediana T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea minima B.Nord. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea murchisoniana T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea nilpinna R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea novae-zelandiae (Hook.f. ex Kirk) Lekhak, Survesw. & S.R.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea odorata T.D.Macfarl. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea pusilla E.Phillips 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea pygmaea (Endl.) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea robusta B.Nord. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea saccata T.D.Macfarl. & S.J.van Leeuwen 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea tenuis (Hook.f.) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea tubulosa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Wurmbea viridiflora Oosth. & K.Balkwill 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.