Maihueniopsis

Accepted species 20 Documented here 12 Family Cactaceae

Accepted species 20 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
Maihueniopsis darwinii (Hensl.) F.Ritter 24 documented
Maihueniopsis glomerata (Haw.) R.Kiesling 22 documented
Maihueniopsis ovata (Pfeiff.) F.Ritter 17 documented
Maihueniopsis molfinoi Speg. 14 documented
Maihueniopsis camachoi (Espinosa) F.Ritter 11 documented
Maihueniopsis hickenii (Britton & Rose) D.R.Hunt 10 documented
Maihueniopsis platyacantha (Pfeiff.) D.R.Hunt 8 documented
Maihueniopsis clavarioides (Otto ex Pfeiff.) E.F.Anderson 7 documented
Maihueniopsis archiconoidea F.Ritter 6 documented
Maihueniopsis grandiflora F.Ritter 4 documented
Maihueniopsis wagenknechtii F.Ritter 4 documented
Maihueniopsis crassispina F.Ritter 3 documented
Maihueniopsis atacamensis (Phil.) F.Ritter 2 below the evidence gate
Maihueniopsis colorea (F.Ritter) F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Maihueniopsis conoidea (F.Ritter ex Backeb.) F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Maihueniopsis domeykoensis F.Ritter 0 below the evidence gate
Maihueniopsis glochidiata G.J.Charles 0 below the evidence gate
Maihueniopsis leoncito (Werderm.) F.Ritter ex P.C.Guerrero & Helmut Walter 0 below the evidence gate
Maihueniopsis minuta (Backeb.) R.Kiesling 0 below the evidence gate
Maihueniopsis reicheana (Espinosa) D.R.Hunt 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.