Echinocereus

Accepted species 89 Documented here 22 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 89 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
Echinocereus stramineus (Engelm.) F.Seitz 1,629 documented
Echinocereus coccineus Engelm. 313 documented
Echinocereus santaritensis W.Blum & Rutow 216 documented
Echinocereus brandegeei (J.M.Coult.) K.Schum. 129 documented
Echinocereus nicholii (L.D.Benson) B.D.Parfitt 91 documented
Echinocereus relictus Wellard 70 documented
Echinocereus polyacanthus Engelm. 46 documented
Echinocereus berlandieri (Engelm.) Haage 17 documented
Echinocereus engelmannii (Parry ex Engelm.) Lem. 16 documented
Echinocereus reichenbachii (Terscheck ex Walp.) J.N.Haage 15 documented
Echinocereus salm-dyckianus Scheer 15 documented
Echinocereus sciurus (K.Brandegee) Dams 12 documented
Echinocereus yavapaiensis M.A.Baker 9 documented
Echinocereus dasyacanthus Engelm. 8 documented
Echinocereus fendleri (Engelm.) Sencke ex J.N.Haage 8 documented
Echinocereus davisii Houghton 7 documented
Echinocereus acanthosetus (S.Arias & U.Guzmán) Gómez-Quintero & Dan.Sánchez 6 documented
Echinocereus longisetus (Engelm.) Lem. 6 documented
Echinocereus rigidissimus (Engelm.) Rose 5 documented
Echinocereus gurneyi (L.D.Benson) W.Blum, Oldach & J.Oldach 4 documented
Echinocereus canus D.Felix & H.Bauer 3 documented
Echinocereus papillosus Linke ex Rümpler 3 documented
Echinocereus neocapillus (D.Weniger) W.Blum & Mich.Lange 3 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus chaletii W.Rischer 2 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus enneacanthus Engelm. 2 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus huitcholensis (F.A.C.Weber) M.Gürke 2 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus pectinatus (Scheidw.) Engelm. 2 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus tamaulipensis (Werderm.) Mich.Lange 2 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus triglochidiatus Engelm. 2 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus chloranthus (Engelm.) J.N.Haage 1 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus ferreiranus H.E.Gates 1 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus primolanatus Fritz Schwarz ex N.P.Taylor 1 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus pulchellus (Mart.) K.Schum. 1 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus sanpedroensis Raudonat & Rischer 1 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus × dahliaeflorus Moellers 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus × kunzei Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus × lloydii Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus × neomexicanus Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus × roetteri (Engelm.) Engelm. ex Rümpler 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus acifer (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Jacobi 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus adustus Engelm. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus arizonicus Rose ex Orcutt 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus barthelowianus Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus blumii D.Felix & H.Bauer 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus bonkerae Thornber & Bonker 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus bristolii W.T.Marshall 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus carmenensis W.Blum, Mich.Lange & Scherer 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus chisoensis W.T.Marshall 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus cinerascens (DC.) Lem. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus claviformis (Regel & E.Klein bis) Haage 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus felixianus H.Bauer 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus grandis Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus klapperi W.Blum 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus knippelianus Liebner 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus koehresianus (G.Frank) W.Rischer 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus kroenleinii (Mich.Lange) W.Blum & Waldeis 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus laui G.Frank 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus ledingii Peebles 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus leucanthus N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus mapimiensis E.F.Anderson, W.C.Hodgs. & P.Quirk 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus maritimus (M.E.Jones) K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus metornii G.Frank 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus milleri W.Blum & al. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus mombergerianus G.Frank 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus nivosus Glass & R.A.Foster 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus occidentalis (N.P.Taylor) W.Rischer, S.Breckw. & Breckw. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus ortegae Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus pacificus (Engelm.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus palmeri Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus pamanesii A.B.Lau 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus parkeri N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus pentalophus (DC.) Engelm. ex J.N.Haage 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus poselgeri Lem. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus pseudopectinatus (N.P.Taylor) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus rayonesensis N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus russanthus D.Weniger 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus scheeri (Salm-Dyck) Scheer 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus schereri G.Frank 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus schmollii (Weing.) N.P.Taylor 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus scopulorum Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus sharpii (N.P.Taylor) Dan.Sánchez & Gómez-Quintero 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus spinigemmatus A.B.Lau 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus stolonifer W.T.Marshall 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus subinermis Salm-Dyck ex Scheer 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus viereckii Werderm. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus viridiflorus Engelm. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus waldeisii Haugg 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus websterianus G.E.Linds. 0 below the evidence gate
Echinocereus weinbergii Weing. 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.