Epiphyllum

Accepted species 17 Documented here 3 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 17 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
Epiphyllum phyllanthus (L.) Haw. 61 documented
Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw. 37 documented
Epiphyllum hookeri Haw. 5 documented
Epiphyllum pumilum Britton & Rose 2 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum × floribundum Kimnach 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum × jenkinsonii G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum × rollissonii T.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum × splendens Anon. 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum × splendidum Paxton 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum × vandesii G.Don 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum baueri Dorsch 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum cartagense (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum chrysocardium Alexander 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum grandilobum (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum laui Kimnach 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum macropterum (Lem.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Epiphyllum thomasianum (K.Schum.) 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.