Cochemiea

Accepted species 39 Documented here 20 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 39 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
Cochemiea grahamii (Engelm.) Doweld 2,440 documented
Cochemiea dioica (K.Brandegee) Doweld 751 documented
Cochemiea armillata (K.Brandegee) P.B.Breslin & Majure 385 documented
Cochemiea tetrancistra (Engelm.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 328 documented
Cochemiea conoidea (DC.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 270 documented
Cochemiea fraileana (Britton & Rose) P.B.Breslin & Majure 106 documented
Cochemiea poselgeri (Hildm.) Britton & Rose 73 documented
Cochemiea schumannii (Hildm.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 47 documented
Cochemiea phitauiana (E.M.Baxter) Doweld 29 documented
Cochemiea mazatlanensis (K.Schum.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 20 documented
Cochemiea guelzowiana (Werderm.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 17 documented
Cochemiea theresae (Cutak) Doweld 14 documented
Cochemiea hutchisoniana (H.E.Gates) P.B.Breslin & Majure 13 documented
Cochemiea sheldonii (Britton & Rose) Doweld 8 documented
Cochemiea barbata (Engelm.) Doweld 7 documented
Cochemiea palmeri (J.M.Coult.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 7 documented
Cochemiea capensis (H.E.Gates) Doweld 6 documented
Cochemiea blossfeldiana (Boed.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 5 documented
Cochemiea maritima G.E.Linds. 5 documented
Cochemiea wrightii (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) Doweld 3 documented
Cochemiea albicans (Britton & Rose) P.B.Breslin & Majure 3 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea mainiae (K.Brandegee) P.B.Breslin & Majure 2 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea pondii (Greene) Walton 2 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea thornberi (Orcutt) P.B.Breslin & Majure 2 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea cerralboa (Britton & Rose) P.B.Breslin & Majure 1 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea goodridgei (Scheer ex Salm-Dyck) P.B.Breslin & Majure 1 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea halei (K.Brandegee) Walton 1 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea insularis (H.E.Gates) P.B.Breslin & Majure 1 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea setispina (Engelm. ex J.M.Coult.) Walton 1 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea angelensis (R.T.Craig) P.B.Breslin & Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea boolii (G.E.Linds.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea bullardiana (H.E.Gates) P.B.Breslin & Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea estebanensis (G.E.Linds.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea macdougallii (Alexander) P.B.Breslin & Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea multidigitata (Radley & G.E.Linds.) P.B.Breslin & Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea saboae (Glass) Doweld 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea swinglei (Britton & Rose) Doweld 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea thomasii García-Mor., Rodr.González, J.García-Jim. & Iamonico 0 below the evidence gate
Cochemiea viridiflora (Britton & Rose) P.B.Breslin & Majure 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.