Disocactus

Accepted species 24 Documented here 4 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Disocactus crenatus (Lindl.) M.A.Cruz & S.Arias 20 documented
Disocactus macdougallii (Alexander) Barthlott 10 documented
Disocactus anguliger (Lem.) M.A.Cruz & S.Arias 9 documented
Disocactus nelsonii (Britton & Rose) Linding. 9 documented
Disocactus speciosus (Cav.) Barthlott 17 below the evidence gate
Disocactus aurantiacus (Kimnach) Barthlott 2 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × amaranthinus (Regel) M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × capelleanus (Rother) E.Meier 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × coopermannii (Worsley) M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × hansii (Baumann) M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × hybridus (Van Geel) Barthlott 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × jenkinsonii (McIntosh) M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × splendens (Regel) M.H.J.van der Meer 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus × violaceus (F.Sm. & T.Sm.bis ex Mast.) Barthlott 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus ackermannii (Haw.) Ralf Bauer 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus biformis (Lindl.) Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus eichlamii (Weing.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus kimnachii G.D.Rowley 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus lepidocarpus (F.A.C.Weber) M.A.Cruz & S.Arias 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus lodei Véliz, L.Velásquez & R.Puente 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus macranthus (Alexander) Kimnach & Hutchison 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus phyllanthoides (DC.) Barthlott 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus quezaltecus (Standl. & Steyerm.) Kimnach 0 below the evidence gate
Disocactus salvadorensis Cerén, Menjívar & S.Arias 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.