Geissorhiza

Geissorhiza is a large genus (103 spp.) of small to medium corm bearing plants in the Iridaceae family found in the winter rainfall region of the south and west coasts of southern Africa. Many of them make very handsome container plants and benefit from extra water during growth. Geissorhiza is quite similar to Hesperantha and superficially very difficult to tell apart although Geissorhiza blooms during the day and many Hesperantha species open late in the day. Most species of Geissorhiza have a style that divides above the anthers and in Hesperantha the style divides at the mouth of the tube. The genus Engysiphon was relegated to a section in Geissorhiza in 1985. Most of the flowers in this section have long tubes unlike the flowers in most of the other species. More information can be learned from Peter Goldblatt's monograph, 1985 and Manning, Goldblatt, Snijman, 2002.

Information on the species can be found on the wiki pages below or by clicking on the name of the species in the table.

Geissorhiza species a-g - Geissorhiza species h-l - Geissorhiza species m-z

Geissorhiza species
Geissorhiza aspera	Geissorhiza bolusii	Geissorhiza bonaspei	Geissorhiza bracteata	Geissorhiza brehmii
Geissorhiza brevituba	Geissorhiza confusa	Geissorhiza corrugata	Geissorhiza darlingensis	Geissorhiza delicatula
Geissorhiza divaricata	Geissorhiza elsiae	Geissorhiza eurystigma	Geissorhiza exscapa	Geissorhiza foliosa
Geissorhiza fourcadei	Geissorhiza geminata	Geissorhiza grandiflora	Geissorhiza hesperanthoides	Geissorhiza heterostyla
Geissorhiza hispidula	Geissorhiza imbricata	Geissorhiza inaequalis	Geissorhiza inconspicua	Geissorhiza inflexa
Geissorhiza juncea	Geissorhiza karooica	Geissorhiza leipoldtii	Geissorhiza longifolia	Geissorhiza louisabolusiae
Geissorhiza mathewsii	Geissorhiza monanthos	Geissorhiza nana	Geissorhiza nigromontana	Geissorhiza ornithogaloides
Geissorhiza ovata	Geissorhiza pseudinaequalis	Geissorhiza purpureolutea	Geissorhiza radians	Geissorhiza roseoalba
Geissorhiza schinzii	Geissorhiza splendidissima	Geissorhiza spp.	Geissorhiza sulphurascens	Geissorhiza tenella
Geissorhiza tulbaghensis