Corryocactus

Accepted species 15 Documented here 5 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 15 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
Corryocactus brevistylus (K.Schum. ex Vaupel) Britton & Rose 46 documented
Corryocactus melanotrichus (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose 42 documented
Corryocactus erectus (Backeb.) F.Ritter 34 documented
Corryocactus aureus (Meyen) Hutchison 9 documented
Corryocactus brachypetalus (Vaupel) Britton & Rose 4 documented
Corryocactus ayacuchoensis Rauh & Backeb. 1 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus dillonii A.Pauca & Quip. 1 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus apiciflorus (Vaupel) Hutchison 0 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus chachapoyensis (Ochoa & Backeb.) Ochoa & Backeb. ex D.R.Hunt 0 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus prostratus F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus pulquinensis Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus quadrangularis (Rauh & Backeb.) F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus serpens F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus squarrosus (Vaupel) Hutchison 0 below the evidence gate
Corryocactus tarijensis Cárdenas 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.