Xanthorrhoea

Accepted species 28 Documented here 21 Family Asphodelaceae

Accepted species 28 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
Xanthorrhoea australis R.Br. 160 documented
Xanthorrhoea macronema F.Muell. ex Benth. 104 documented
Xanthorrhoea semiplana F.Muell. 90 documented
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii A.T.Lee 85 documented
Xanthorrhoea latifolia (A.T.Lee) D.J.Bedford 65 documented
Xanthorrhoea preissii Endl. 43 documented
Xanthorrhoea arborea R.Br. 40 documented
Xanthorrhoea glauca D.J.Bedford 35 documented
Xanthorrhoea resinosa Pers. 34 documented
Xanthorrhoea concava (A.T.Lee) D.J.Bedford 19 documented
Xanthorrhoea malacophylla D.J.Bedford 16 documented
Xanthorrhoea fulva (A.T.Lee) D.J.Bedford 15 documented
Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata F.Muell. 15 documented
Xanthorrhoea drummondii Harv. 13 documented
Xanthorrhoea pumilio R.Br. 10 documented
Xanthorrhoea caespitosa D.J.Bedford 8 documented
Xanthorrhoea gracilis Endl. 5 documented
Xanthorrhoea arenaria D.J.Bedford 4 documented
Xanthorrhoea media R.Br. 4 documented
Xanthorrhoea nana D.A.Herb. 4 documented
Xanthorrhoea thorntonii Tate 3 documented
Xanthorrhoea brunonis Endl. 2 below the evidence gate
Xanthorrhoea platyphylla D.J.Bedford 1 below the evidence gate
Xanthorrhoea acanthostachya D.J.Bedford 0 below the evidence gate
Xanthorrhoea acaulis (A.T.Lee) D.J.Bedford 0 below the evidence gate
Xanthorrhoea bracteata R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Xanthorrhoea brevistyla D.A.Herb. 0 below the evidence gate
Xanthorrhoea minor R.Br. 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.