Coryphantha

Accepted species 46 Documented here 30 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 46 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
Coryphantha sulcata (Engelm.) Britton & Rose 307 documented
Coryphantha echinus (Engelm.) Britton & Rose 101 documented
Coryphantha delicata L.Bremer 89 documented
Coryphantha erecta (Lem. ex Pfeiff.) Lem. 82 documented
Coryphantha cornifera (DC.) Lem. 76 documented
Coryphantha nickelsiae (K.Brandegee) Britton & Rose 53 documented
Coryphantha salinensis (Poselg.) Dicht & A.Lüthy 52 documented
Coryphantha octacantha (DC.) Britton & Rose 36 documented
Coryphantha delaetiana (Quehl) A.Berger 35 documented
Coryphantha poselgeriana (A.Dietr.) Britton & Rose 33 documented
Coryphantha neglecta L.Bremer 32 documented
Coryphantha georgii Boed. 29 documented
Coryphantha robustispina (Schott ex Engelm.) Britton & Rose 29 documented
Coryphantha pseudoradians Bravo 23 documented
Coryphantha difficilis (Quehl) Orcutt 20 documented
Coryphantha retusa (Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose 19 documented
Coryphantha pallida Britton & Rose 16 documented
Coryphantha durangensis (Runge ex K.Schum.) Britton & Rose 12 documented
Coryphantha maiz-tablasensis Fritz Schwarz ex Backeb. 11 documented
Coryphantha echinoidea (Quehl) Britton & Rose 9 documented
Coryphantha compacta (Engelm.) Orcutt 8 documented
Coryphantha kracikii Halda, Chalupa & Kupčák 8 documented
Coryphantha ottonis (Pfeiff.) Lem. 6 documented
Coryphantha vogtherriana Werderm. & Boed. 6 documented
Coryphantha jalpanensis Buchenau 5 documented
Coryphantha elephantidens (Lem.) Lem. 4 documented
Coryphantha glanduligera (Otto & A.Dietr.) Lem. 4 documented
Coryphantha gracilis Bremer & A.B.Lau 4 documented
Coryphantha potosiana (Jacobi) Glass & R.A.Foster 4 documented
Coryphantha pseudonickelsiae Backeb. 4 documented
Coryphantha clavata (Scheidw.) Backeb. 3 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha glassii Dicht & A.Lüthy 2 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha pycnacantha (Mart.) Lem. 2 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha vaupeliana Boed. 2 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha longicornis Boed. 1 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha pulleineana (Backeb.) Glass 1 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha bumamma (Ehrenb.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha calipensis Bravo ex S.Arias, Gama & U.Guzmán 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha greenwoodii Bravo 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha hintoniorum Dicht & A.Lüthy 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha pseudoechinus Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha ramillosa Cutak 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha recurvata (Engelm.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha tripugionacantha A.B.Lau 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha werdermannii Boed. 0 below the evidence gate
Coryphantha wohlschlageri Holzeis 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.