Cereus

Accepted species 73 Documented here 13 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 73 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
Cereus jamacaru DC. 215 documented
Cereus aethiops Haw. 87 documented
Cereus hildmannianus K.Schum. 72 documented
Cereus stenogonus K.Schum. 34 documented
Cereus hexagonus (L.) Mill. 24 documented
Cereus forbesii C.F.Först. 16 documented
Cereus repandus (L.) Mill. 15 documented
Cereus fernambucensis Lem. 12 documented
Cereus hankeanus F.A.C.Weber ex K.Schum. 11 documented
Cereus albicaulis (Britton & Rose) Luetzelb. 6 documented
Cereus insularis Hemsl. 5 documented
Cereus bicolor Rizzini & A.Mattos 4 documented
Cereus pierre-braunianus Esteves 3 documented
Cereus spegazzinii F.A.C.Weber 1 below the evidence gate
Cereus × ackermannii Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × aurora Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × callicanthus (Rümpler) Woodson 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × colvillii Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × devauxii C.F.Först. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × flemingii C.F.Först. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × funkii C.F.Först. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × ruber C.F.Först. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × rueferi Lipsch. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × smithianus Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus × vulcan Müll.Arg. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus adelmarii (Rizzini & A.Mattos) P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus albispinus Salm-Dyck 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus argentinensis Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus auratus Labour. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus ayisyen M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus calcirupicola (F.Ritter) Rizzini 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus cochabambensis Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus comarapanus Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus flemingii K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus fricii Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus fulvispinosus Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus gerardi N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus gladiger Cels ex Salm-Dyck 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus guasabara Cortés 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus haitiensis Schelle 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus horrispinus Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus huilunchu Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus humilis DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus ingens N.P.Taylor & M.Machado 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus lamprospermus K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus lanosus (F.Ritter) P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus lutescens Salm-Dyck ex Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus mariculi Hort. ex Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus mirabella N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus monvilleanus F.A.C.Weber ex K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus mortensenii (Croizat) D.R.Hunt & N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus niger Salm-Dyck 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus nigricans Lem. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus nobilis Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus pachyrrhizus K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus paraguayensis K.Schum. ex Chodat & Hassl. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus perotetti Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus phatnospermus K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus polyachaetus Rchb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus polymorphus (Gill.) G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus polyptychus Lem. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus pycnacanthus Salm-Dyck 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus rigidispinus Monv. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus saddianus (Rizzini & A.Mattos) P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus sericifer (F.Ritter) P.J.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus spinibarbis Hort.Berol. ex Pfeiff. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus strictus DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus subrepandus Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus tacuaralensis Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus tehuacanensis Roezl 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus trigonodendron K.Schum. ex Vaupel 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus vargasianus Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Cereus yungasensis A.Fuentes & Quispe 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.