Pelecyphora

Accepted species 20 Documented here 11 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
Pelecyphora tuberculosa (Engelm.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 1,586 documented
Pelecyphora vivipara (Nutt.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 1,118 documented
Pelecyphora dasyacantha (Engelm.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 455 documented
Pelecyphora alversonii (J.M.Coult.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 183 documented
Pelecyphora sneedii (Britton & Rose) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 157 documented
Pelecyphora emskoetteriana (Quehl) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 34 documented
Pelecyphora missouriensis (Sweet) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 21 documented
Pelecyphora macromeris (Engelm.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 14 documented
Pelecyphora lloydii (Britton & Rose) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 10 documented
Pelecyphora aselliformis C.Ehrenb. 9 documented
Pelecyphora minima (Baird) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 7 documented
Pelecyphora chihuahuensis (Britton & Rose) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 2 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora abdita (Řepka & Vaško) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 1 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora cubensis (Britton & Rose) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora duncanii (Hester) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora hesteri (Y.Wright) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora laredoi (Glass & R.A.Foster) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora robbinsorum (W.H.Earle) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 0 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora strobiliformis (Werderm.) Frič & Schelle ex Kreuz. 0 below the evidence gate
Pelecyphora zilziana (Boed.) D.Aquino & Dan.Sánchez 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.