Hechtia

Accepted species 90 Documented here 15 Family Bromeliaceae

Accepted species 90 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
Hechtia glomerata Zucc. 91 documented
Hechtia texensis S.Watson 83 documented
Hechtia montana Brandegee 23 documented
Hechtia podantha Mez 20 documented
Hechtia pringlei B.L.Rob. & Greenm. 15 documented
Hechtia elegans Siekkinen, Hern.-Cárdenas, López-Ferr. & Espejo 10 documented
Hechtia rosea É.Morren ex Baker 10 documented
Hechtia rubicunda López-Ferr. & Espejo 10 documented
Hechtia sphaeroblasta B.L.Rob. 9 documented
Hechtia perotensis I.Ramírez & Mart.-Correa 5 documented
Hechtia confusa L.B.Sm. 4 documented
Hechtia schottii Baker 4 documented
Hechtia jaliscana L.B.Sm. 3 documented
Hechtia matudae L.B.Sm. 3 documented
Hechtia myriantha Mez 3 documented
Hechtia lanata L.B.Sm. 2 below the evidence gate
Hechtia oaxacana Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. 2 below the evidence gate
Hechtia roseana L.B.Sm. 2 below the evidence gate
Hechtia stenopetala Klotzsch 2 below the evidence gate
Hechtia chichinautzensis Mart.-Correa, Espejo & López-Ferr. 1 below the evidence gate
Hechtia lepidophylla I.Ramírez 1 below the evidence gate
Hechtia anarosae Siekkinen, Hern.-Cárdenas & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia aquamarina I.Ramírez & C.F.Jiménez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia argentea (B.S.Williams) Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia bracteata Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia capituligera Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia carlsoniae Burt-Utley & Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia caudata L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia caulescens López-Ferr., Espejo & Mart.-Correa 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia colossa Mart.-Correa, Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia complanata Burt-Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia conzattiana L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia dasylirioides Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo, López-Ferr. & Siekkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia deceptrix I.Ramírez & C.T.Hornung 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia dichroantha Donn.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia edulis I.Ramírez, Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia elliptica L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia ensifolia Hern.-Cárdenas, Siekkinen, López-Ferr. & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia epigyna Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia espejoana Siekkinen, Hern.-Cárdenas & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia flexilifolia I.Ramírez & Carnevali 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia fosteriana L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia fragilis Burt-Utley & Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia galeottii Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia gayorum L.W.Lenz 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia glabra Brandegee 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia glauca Burt-Utley & Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia guatemalensis Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia gypsophila López-Ferr., Espejo & Hern.-Cárdenas 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia hernandez-sandovalii I.Ramírez, C.F.Jiménez & Treviño 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia hintoniana Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia huamelulaensis I.Ramírez & Carnevali 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia ibugana Flores-Arg., Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia iltisii Burt-Utley & Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia isthmusiana Burt-Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia ixtlanensis Burt-Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia laevis L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia laxissima L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia liebmannii Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia longissimifolia Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo, López-Ferr. & Siekkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia lyman-smithii Burt-Utley & Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia malvernii Gilmartin 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia mapimiana López-Ferr. & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia marnier-lapostollei L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia marthae I.Ramírez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia medusae Hern.-Cárdenas, Siekkinen, López-Ferr. & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia melanocarpa L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia mexicana L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia michoacana Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia microcarpa Siekkinen, Hern.-Cárdenas, López-Ferr. & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia minimiflora Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo, López-Ferr. & Siekkinen 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia minuta Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia montis-frigidi Gonz.-Rocha, Espejo, López-Ferr. & Cerros 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia mooreana L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia nivea I.Ramírez & C.F.Jiménez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia nuusaviorum Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia pedicellata S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia platyphylla Hern.-Cárdenas, Siekkinen, López-Ferr. & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia pretiosa Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia pueblensis Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia pumila Burt-Utley & Utley 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia purhepecha I.García, Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia pycnostachya Hern.-Cárdenas, Siekkinen, López-Ferr. & Espejo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia reflexa L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia reticulata L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia santanae I.Ramírez & P.Carrillo 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia suaveolens É.Morren ex Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia subalata L.B.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia vicesphaeroblasta Siekkinen, Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo & López-Ferr. 0 below the evidence gate
Hechtia zamudioi Espejo, López-Ferr. & I.Ramírez 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.