Frailea

Accepted species 17 Documented here 1 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
Frailea chiquitana Cárdenas 5 documented
Frailea cataphracta (Dams) Britton & Rose 2 below the evidence gate
Frailea gracillima (Lem.) Britton & Rose 2 below the evidence gate
Frailea pygmaea (Speg.) Britton & Rose 1 below the evidence gate
Frailea schilinzkyana (F.Haage) Britton & Rose 1 below the evidence gate
Frailea alexandri Metzing 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea amerhauseri Prestlé 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea buenekeri W.R.Abraham 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea castanea Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea curvispina Buining & Brederoo 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea diersiana Schädlich 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea erythracantha R.Pontes, A.S.Oliveira & Deble 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea fulviseta Buining & Brederoo 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea larae R.Vásquez 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea mammifera Buining & Brederoo 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea phaeodisca (Speg.) Backeb. & F.M.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Frailea pumila (Lem.) 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.