Discocactus

Accepted species 15 Documented here 3 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
Discocactus placentiformis (Lehm.) K.Schum. 5 documented
Discocactus pseudoinsignis N.P.Taylor & Zappi 4 documented
Discocactus catingicola Buining & Brederoo 3 documented
Discocactus bahiensis Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus boliviensis Buining & Brederoo 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus buenekeri W.R.Abraham 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus diersianus Esteves 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus ferricola Buining & Brederoo 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus hartmannii (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus heptacanthus (Barb.Rodr.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus horstii Buining & Brederoo 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus petr-halfarii Zachar 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus piscibarbarus N.P.Taylor & Olsthoorn 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus subnudus Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Discocactus zehntneri Britton & Rose 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.