Grusonia

Accepted species 22 Documented here 13 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 22 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
Grusonia clavata (Engelm.) H.Rob. 99 documented
Grusonia emoryi (Engelm.) Pinkava 90 documented
Grusonia parishii (Orcutt) Pinkava 72 documented
Grusonia kunzei (Rose) Pinkava 66 documented
Grusonia grahamii (Engelm.) H.Rob. 56 documented
Grusonia aggeria (Ralston & Hilsenb.) E.F.Anderson 35 documented
Grusonia schottii (Engelm.) H.Rob. 31 documented
Grusonia invicta (K.Brandegee) E.F.Anderson 27 documented
Grusonia bradtiana (J.M.Coult.) Britton & Rose 16 documented
Grusonia bulbispina (Engelm.) H.Rob. 10 documented
Grusonia densispina (Ralston & Hilsenb.) Pinkava 5 documented
Grusonia marenae (S.H.Parsons) E.F.Anderson 5 documented
Grusonia reflexispina (Wiggins & Rollins) E.F.Anderson 3 documented
Grusonia deinacantha (D.Donati) Majure, M.A.Baker & Cloud-H. 1 below the evidence gate
Grusonia agglomerata (A.Berger) E.F.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Grusonia guccinii (D.Donati) Bárcenas & H.M.Hern. 0 below the evidence gate
Grusonia halophila (D.Donati) Majure, M.A.Baker & Cloud-H. 0 below the evidence gate
Grusonia moelleri (A.Berger) E.F.Anderson 0 below the evidence gate
Grusonia pulvinata D.Donati 0 below the evidence gate
Grusonia robertsii Rebman 0 below the evidence gate
Grusonia vilis (Rose) H.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Grusonia wrightiana (E.M.Baxter) E.M.Baxter 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.