Austrocactus

Accepted species 17 Documented here 5 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 17 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
Austrocactus bertinii (J.F.Cels) Britton & Rose 22 documented
Austrocactus coxii (K.Schum.) Backeb. 19 documented
Austrocactus longicarpus E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 7 documented
Austrocactus hibernus F.Ritter 4 documented
Austrocactus spiniflorus (Phil.) F.Ritter 4 documented
Austrocactus aonikenkensis E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 2 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus ferrarii R.Kiesling, E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 1 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus pauxillus E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 1 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus decorus E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus diamantinus E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus elegans Böhnert 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus implexus E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus nobilis E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus occidentalis Merkl. 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus philippii (Regel & Schmidt) Buxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus praecox E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 0 below the evidence gate
Austrocactus subandinus E.Sarnes & N.Sarnes 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.