There are 212 species are currently accepted within the genus Sisyrinchium. Botanists have divided the genus using several schemes in the past, but the current division into 10 sections proposed by Inacio et al in 2017 is rooted in phylogenetic analysis and mapped to consistent morphological characters.
Species The following species are accepted in the genus Sisyrinchium:
Formerly placed here Calydorea speciosa (Hook.) Herb. (as S. speciosum Hook.) Eleutherine bulbosa (Mill.) Urb. (as S. bulbosum Mill.) Libertia ixioides (G.Forst.) Spreng. (as S. ixioides G.Forst.) Solenomelus pedunculatus (Gillies) Hochr. (as S. pedunculatum Gillies ex Hook.) Olsynium junceum
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