Cumulopuntia

Accepted species 14 Documented here 7 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 14 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
Cumulopuntia leucophaea (Phil.) Hoxey 77 documented
Cumulopuntia boliviana (Salm-Dyck) F.Ritter 58 documented
Cumulopuntia ignescens (Vaupel) F.Ritter 22 documented
Cumulopuntia corotilla (K.Schum. ex Vaupel) E.F.Anderson 14 documented
Cumulopuntia chichensis (Cárdenas) E.F.Anderson 10 documented
Cumulopuntia sphaerica (C.F.Först.) E.F.Anderson 5 documented
Cumulopuntia pentlandii (Salm-Dyck) F.Ritter 3 documented
Cumulopuntia ignota (Britton & Rose) F.Ritter 1 below the evidence gate
Cumulopuntia zehnderi (Rauh & Backeb.) F.Ritter 1 below the evidence gate
Cumulopuntia dactylifera (Vaupel) E.F.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Cumulopuntia echinacea (F.Ritter) F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Cumulopuntia glomerata (Pfeiff.) Hoxey 0 below the evidence gate
Cumulopuntia iturbicola G.J.Charles 0 below the evidence gate
Cumulopuntia subterranea (R.E.Fr.) F.Ritter 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.