Cylindropuntia

Accepted species 50 Documented here 31 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 50 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
Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (DC.) F.M.Knuth 2,886 documented
Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth 2,560 documented
Cylindropuntia echinocarpa (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth 2,469 documented
Cylindropuntia fulgida (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 2,172 documented
Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth 1,776 documented
Cylindropuntia bigelovii (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 1,579 documented
Cylindropuntia ramosissima (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 1,367 documented
Cylindropuntia ganderi (C.B.Wolf) Rebman & Pinkava 644 documented
Cylindropuntia prolifera (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 558 documented
Cylindropuntia arbuscula (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 291 documented
Cylindropuntia whipplei (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth 250 documented
Cylindropuntia cholla (F.A.C.Weber) F.M.Knuth 242 documented
Cylindropuntia bernardina (Engelm. ex Parish) M.A.Baker 153 documented
Cylindropuntia thurberi (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 121 documented
Cylindropuntia tunicata (Lehm.) F.M.Knuth 115 documented
Cylindropuntia munzii (C.B.Wolf) Backeb. 100 documented
Cylindropuntia kleiniae (DC.) F.M.Knuth 82 documented
Cylindropuntia wolfii (L.D.Benson) M.A.Baker 79 documented
Cylindropuntia davisii (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth 64 documented
Cylindropuntia multigeniculata (Clokey) Backeb. 56 documented
Cylindropuntia chuckwallensis M.A.Baker & Cloud-H. 39 documented
Cylindropuntia californica (Torr. & A.Gray) F.M.Knuth 26 documented
Cylindropuntia alcahes (F.A.C.Weber) F.M.Knuth 21 documented
Cylindropuntia pallida (Rose) F.M.Knuth 18 documented
Cylindropuntia caribaea (Britton & Rose) F.M.Knuth 11 documented
Cylindropuntia tesajo (Engelm. ex J.M.Coult.) F.M.Knuth 10 documented
Cylindropuntia molesta (K.Brandegee) F.M.Knuth 8 documented
Cylindropuntia abyssi (Hester) Backeb. 7 documented
Cylindropuntia cedrosensis Rebman 6 documented
Cylindropuntia anteojoensis (Pinkava) E.F.Anderson 3 documented
Cylindropuntia calmalliana (J.M.Coult.) F.M.Knuth 3 documented
Cylindropuntia ciribe (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 2 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia hystrix (Griseb.) Areces 2 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia waltoniorum Rebman 1 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × antoniae P.V.Heath 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × campii (M.A.Baker & Pinkava) M.A.Baker & Pinkava 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × deserta (Griffiths) Pinkava 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × fosbergii (C.B.Wolf) Rebman, M.A.Baker & Pinkava 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × grantiorum P.V.Heath 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × kelvinensis (V.E.Grant & K.A.Grant) P.V.Heath 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × media P.V.Heath 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × parryi (Engelm.) F.M.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia × viridiflora (Britton & Rose) F.M.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia delgadilloana Rebman & Pinkava 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia densiaculeata Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia libertadensis Rebman 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia lindsayi (Rebman) Rebman 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia perrita (Griffiths) Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia sanfelipensis (Rebman) Rebman 0 below the evidence gate
Cylindropuntia santamaria (E.M.Baxter) Rebman 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.