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.
| Species | Authority | Usable photographs | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilosocereus armatus | (Otto ex Pfeiff.) A.R.Franck | 49 | documented |
| Pilosocereus leucocephalus | (Poselg.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 41 | documented |
| Pilosocereus purpusii | (Britton & Rose) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 39 | documented |
| Pilosocereus gaumeri | (Britton & Rose) Backeb. | 38 | documented |
| Pilosocereus ulei | (K.Schum.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 36 | documented |
| Pilosocereus arrabidae | (Lem.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 30 | documented |
| Pilosocereus lanuginosus | (L.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 26 | documented |
| Pilosocereus curtisii | (Otto) A.R.Franck | 17 | documented |
| Pilosocereus robinii | (Lem.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 17 | documented |
| Pilosocereus chrysacanthus | (F.A.C.Weber ex K.Schum.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 16 | documented |
| Pilosocereus brooksianus | (Vaupel) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 14 | documented |
| Pilosocereus polygonus | (Lam.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 9 | documented |
| Pilosocereus jamaicensis | Proctor ex A.R.Franck | 7 | documented |
| Pilosocereus brasiliensis | (Britton & Rose) Backeb. | 6 | documented |
| Pilosocereus fulvilanatus | (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter | 6 | documented |
| Pilosocereus pachycladus | F.Ritter | 6 | documented |
| Pilosocereus alensis | (F.A.C.Weber) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 5 | documented |
| Pilosocereus machrisii | (E.Y.Dawson) Backeb. | 5 | documented |
| Pilosocereus millspaughii | (Britton) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 5 | documented |
| Pilosocereus glaucochrous | (Werderm.) Blyles & G.D.Rowley | 4 | documented |
| Pilosocereus catingicola | (Gürke) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 2 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus parvus | (Diers & Esteves) P.J.Braun | 1 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus × pseudosuperfloccosus | P.J.Braun & Esteves | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus × subsimilis | Rizzini & A.Mattos | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus albisummus | P.J.Braun & Esteves | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus aureispinus | (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus aurilanatus | F.Ritter | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus aurisetus | (Werderm.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus azulensis | N.P.Taylor & Zappi | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus brauniorum | (Esteves) N.P.Taylor & Zappi | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus catalani | (Riccob.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus catimbauensis | (N.P.Taylor & Albuq.-Lima) N.P.Taylor & Albuq.-Lima | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus chrysostele | (Vaupel) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus collinsii | (Britton & Rose) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus colombianus | (Rose) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus cristalinensis | P.J.Braun & Esteves | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus densiareolatus | F.Ritter | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus diersianus | (Esteves) P.J.Braun | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus flavipulvinatus | (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus flexibilispinus | P.J.Braun & Esteves | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus floccosus | Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus hermentianus | (Monv. ex Lem.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus juaruensis | (Buining & Brederoo) P.J.Braun | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus kanukuensis | (Alexander) Leuenb. | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus magnificus | (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus moritzianus | (Otto) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus multicostatus | F.Ritter | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus novaromanus | F.Oliveira Pereira & Olsthoorn | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus occultiflorus | P.J.Braun & Esteves | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus oligolepis | (Vaupel) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus pentaedrophorus | (Labour.) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus piauhyensis | (Gürke) Byles & G.D.Rowley | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus pusillibaccatus | P.J.Braun & Esteves | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus tillianus | R.Gruber & Schatzl | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus vilaboensis | (Diers & Esteves) P.J.Braun | 0 | below the evidence gate |
| Pilosocereus zahrae | P.J.Braun | 0 | below the evidence 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.