Xerophyta

Accepted species 57 Documented here 10 Family Velloziaceae

Accepted species 57 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
Xerophyta retinervis Baker 169 documented
Xerophyta viscosa Baker 55 documented
Xerophyta adendorffii Behnke 28 documented
Xerophyta elegans (Balf.) Baker 25 documented
Xerophyta humilis (Baker) T.Durand & Schinz 18 documented
Xerophyta vallispongolana J.E.Burrows, S.M.Burrows & Behnke 6 documented
Xerophyta dasylirioides Baker 5 documented
Xerophyta rehmannii Behnke 5 documented
Xerophyta schlechteri (Baker) N.L.Menezes 4 documented
Xerophyta splendens (Rendle) N.L.Menezes 3 documented
Xerophyta acuminata (Baker) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta andringitrensis (H.Perrier) Phillipson & Lowry 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta arabica (Baker) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta argentea (Wild) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta brevifolia (H.Perrier) Phillipson & Lowry 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta capillaris Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta cauliflora Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta concolor L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta connata McPherson & van der Werff 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta demeesmaekeriana P.A.Duvign. & Dewit 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta eglandulosa H.Perrier 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta equisetoides Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta eylesii (Greves) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta glabra Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta glutinosa Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta goetzei (Harms) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta hereroensis (Schinz) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta hirtiflora Behnke & E.Hummel 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta junodii Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta kirkii (Hemsl.) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta longicaulis Hilliard 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta monroi (Greves) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta naegelsbachii (Dinter ex Friedr.-Holzh.) Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta nutans L.B.Sm. & Ayensu 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta pauciramosa (L.B.Sm. & Ayensu) Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta pectinata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta pinifolia Lam. ex Poir. 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta pseudopinifolia Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta purpurascens Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta rippsteinii L.B.Sm., J.-P.Lebrun & Stork 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta rosea (Baker) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta scabrida (Pax) T.Durand & Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta schnizleinia (Hochst.) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta seinei Behnke, K.Kramer & E.Hummel 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta sessiliflora Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta simulans L.B.Sm. & Ayensu 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta spekei Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta squarrosa Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta stenophylla Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta suaveolens (Greves) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta tanzaniana Behnke 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta trichophylla (Baker) N.L.Menezes 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta tulearensis (H.Perrier) Phillipson & Lowry 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta velutina Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta villosa (Baker) L.B.Sm. & Ayensu 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta wentzeliana (Harms) Sölch 0 below the evidence gate
Xerophyta zimbabwensis Behnke & E.Hummel 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.