Leptocereus

Accepted species 22 Documented here 7 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
Leptocereus nudiflorus (Engelm. ex C.Wright) D.Barrios & S.Arias 36 documented
Leptocereus undulosus (DC.) D.Barrios & Majure 18 documented
Leptocereus paniculatus (Lam.) D.R.Hunt 14 documented
Leptocereus arboreus Britton & Rose 6 documented
Leptocereus demissus Areces 4 documented
Leptocereus weingartianus (E.Hartmann) Britton & Rose 4 documented
Leptocereus assurgens (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Britton & Rose 3 documented
Leptocereus quadricostatus (Bello) Britton & Rose 2 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus leonii Britton & Rose 1 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus sylvestris Britton & Rose 1 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus albellus (Areces) D.Barrios & S.Arias 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus carinatus Areces 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus chrysotyrius Areces 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus ekmanii (Werderm.) F.M.Knuth 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus gonzaleztorresii D.Barrios 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus grantianus Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus maxonii Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus prostratus Britton & Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus scopulophilus Areces 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus septentrionalis Hoxey & Gdaniec 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus velozianus Clase, Y.Encarn., Peguero & Majure 0 below the evidence gate
Leptocereus wrightii León 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.