Cnidoscolus

Accepted species 92 Documented here 15 Family Euphorbiaceae

Accepted species 92 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
Cnidoscolus stimulosus (Michx.) Engelm. & A.Gray 817 documented
Cnidoscolus texanus Small 721 documented
Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (Mill.) I.M.Johnst. 91 documented
Cnidoscolus multilobus (Pax) I.M.Johnst. 72 documented
Cnidoscolus maculatus (Brandegee) Pax & K.Hoffm. 51 documented
Cnidoscolus urens (L.) Arthur 42 documented
Cnidoscolus souzae McVaugh 35 documented
Cnidoscolus tehuacanensis Breckon 25 documented
Cnidoscolus angustidens Torr. 18 documented
Cnidoscolus tepiquensis (Costantin & Gallaud) Lundell 12 documented
Cnidoscolus megacanthus Breckon ex Fern.Casas 6 documented
Cnidoscolus rotundifolius (Müll.Arg.) McVaugh 5 documented
Cnidoscolus sinaloensis Breckon ex Fern.Casas 4 documented
Cnidoscolus vitifolius Pohl 4 documented
Cnidoscolus quercifolius Pohl 3 documented
Cnidoscolus elasticus Lundell 2 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus palmeri (S.Watson) Rose 2 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus rzedowskii Fern.Casas & V.W.Steinm. 2 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus spinosus Lundell 2 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus rostratus Lundell 1 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus acrandrus (Urb.) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus aculeatissimus (Colla) Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus adenoblepharus Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus adenochlamys Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus aequatoriensis Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus albibracteatus Fern.Casas & Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus albidus Lundell 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus albomaculatus I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus appendiculatus (Pax & K.Hoffm.) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus aurelii Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus autlanensis Breckon 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus bahianus (Ule) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus basiacanthus (Pax & K.Hoffm.) J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus beckii Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus bellatrix (Ekman ex Urb.) León 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus byssinus Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus cajamarcensis Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus calyptrodontus Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus ceballosii Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus cervii Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus cnicodendron Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus conicus Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus diacanthus (Pax & K.Hoffm.) J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus eglandulatus Maya-Lastra & V.W.Steinm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus egregius Breckon ex Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus fimbriatus Breckon ex Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus froesii (Croizat) Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus graminifolius Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus guatimalensis Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus halteris Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus hamosus Pohl 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus hypokerinus Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus hypoleucus (Pax) Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus infernidialis Maya-Lastra & V.W.Steinm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus infestus Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus jaenensis (Pax & K.Hoffm.) J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus kunthianus (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus leuconeurus (Pax & K.Hoffm.) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus liebmannii (Müll.Arg.) Lundell 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus liesneri Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus loasoides I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus lombardii Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus longibracteatus Fern.Casas & Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus longipes (Pax) I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus magni-gerdtii Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus maracayensis (Chodat & Hassl.) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus matosii León 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus mcvaughii C.C.Oliveira & M.J.Silva 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus monicanus J.A.Lomelí, Sahagún & V.W.Steinm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus neglectus Pohl 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus oligandrus (Müll.Arg.) Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus orientensis Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus paucistamineus (Pax) Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus pavonianus (Müll.Arg.) Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus piranii Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus populifolius Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus pteroneurus Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus pubescens Pohl 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus pyrophorus (Pax) J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus rangel (M.Gómez) McVaugh 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus regina (León) Radcl.-Sm. & Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus rupestris Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus sellowianus Klotzsch ex Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus serrulatus (Pax & K.Hoffm.) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus shrevei I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus subinteger (Chodat & Hassl.) Pax & K.Hoffm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus tenuifolius I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus tridentifer Fern.Casas & J.M.Pizarro 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus tubulosus I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus ulei (Pax) Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus urentissimus Fern.Casas 0 below the evidence gate
Cnidoscolus urnigerus (Pax) Pax 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.