Gymnocalycium

Accepted species 68 Documented here 15 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 68 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
Gymnocalycium monvillei (Lem.) Pfeiff. ex Britton & Rose 38 documented
Gymnocalycium pflanzii (Vaupel) Werderm. 20 documented
Gymnocalycium gibbosum (Haw.) Pfeiff. ex Mittler 11 documented
Gymnocalycium mostii (Gürke) Britton & Rose 7 documented
Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex H.Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus 7 documented
Gymnocalycium striglianum Jeggle ex H.Till 7 documented
Gymnocalycium friedrichii (Werderm.) Pazout 5 documented
Gymnocalycium spegazzinii Britton & Rose 5 documented
Gymnocalycium anisitsii (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose 4 documented
Gymnocalycium pugionacanthum Backeb. ex H.Till 4 documented
Gymnocalycium saglionis (Cels) Britton & Rose 4 documented
Gymnocalycium andreae (Boed.) Backeb. & F.M.Knuth 3 documented
Gymnocalycium paediophilum F.Ritter ex Schütz 3 documented
Gymnocalycium reductum (Link) Pfeiff. ex Mittler 3 documented
Gymnocalycium schroederianum Osten 3 documented
Gymnocalycium castellanosii Backeb. 2 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium robustum R.Kiesling, O.Ferrari & Metzing 2 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium baldianum (Speg.) Speg. 1 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum (Hosseus) A.Berger 1 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium erinaceum J.G.Lamb. 1 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium mendozaense C.A.L.Bercht & Schädlich 1 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium × heidiae Neuhuber 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium × momo V.Gapon & Schelkun. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium × pazoutianum Halda 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium alboareolatum Rausch 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium amerhauseri H.Till 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium angelae Mereg. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium bayrianum H.Till 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium berchtii Neuhuber 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium bruchii (Speg.) Hosseus 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium cabreraense Schädlich, C.A.L.Bercht & Melojer 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium calochlorum (Boed.) Y.Itô 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium capillense (Schick) Hosseus 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium carolinense (Neuhuber) Neuhuber 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium chacoense Amerh. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium chiquitanum Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium denudatum (Link & Otto) Pfeiff. ex Mittler 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium esperanzae Řepka & Kulhánek 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium eurypleurum Plesnik ex F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium fischeri Halda, Kupčák, Lukašik & Sladk. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium glaucum F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium horstii Buining 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium hossei (Haage) A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium hybopleurum (K.Schum.) Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium hyptiacanthum (Lem.) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium kieslingii O.Ferrari 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium kroenleinii R.Kiesling, Rausch & O.Ferrari 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium kuehhasii Neuhuber & R.Sperling 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium kulhanekii Papsch 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium leptanthum (Speg.) Speg. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium marianae Perea, O.Ferrari, Las Peñas & R.Kiesling 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium marsoneri Frič ex Y.Itô 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium mazanense (Backeb.) Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium mesopotamicum R.Kiesling 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium mihanovichii (Frič & Gürke) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium neuhuberi H.Till & W.Till 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium nigriareolatum Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium ochoterenae Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium oenanthemum Backeb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium paraguayense (K.Schum.) Hosseus 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium parvulum (Speg.) Speg. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium ragonesei A.Cast. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium rhodantherum (Boed.) H.Till 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium ritterianum Rausch 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium schickendantzii (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium taningaense Piltz 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium uebelmannianum Rausch 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnocalycium uruguayense (Arechav.) 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.